Celluloid Classicism : Early Tamil Cinema and the Making of Modern Bharatanatyam
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Clasificación temática
Otros campos
SUMARIO: 1.The Devadasi Community and the Cinematic Imagination: Politics, Participation, and Representation / 2.The Ocular Politics of Making Modern Bharatanatyam / 3.Cinema, Dance, and Bourgeois Nationalism: Mediated Morality, Classicism, and the State in Modern South India / 4.The Emergence of the Choreographer and a New Envisioning of Dance / 5.Genre, Repertoire, and Technique in Cinema and on the Urban Stage.
"This book investigates how two of the most prominent cultural forms of modern South India, Tamil cinema and Bharatana¯t?yam dance, share complex and deeply intertwined histories. Celluloid classicism is about the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the late 1950s, decades that were marked by distinctly new, interocular modes of cultural production in cosmopolitan Madras. This book unsettles received histories of modern Bharatana¯t?yam by arguing that cinema, in all its technological, moral, and visual complexities, bears heavily and irrevocably upon iterations of this 'classical' dance. Bringing over a decade of archival research into conversations with choreographic analysis and ethnography, this work addresses key questions around the fluid and reciprocal exchange of knowledge between screen and stage versions of Bharatana¯t?yam in the early decades of the 20th century"