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Celluloid classicism : early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
- Title
- Celluloid classicism : early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam / Hari Krishnan.
- Author
- Krishnan, Hari (Choreographer)
- Publication
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xii, 323 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This book investigates how two of the most prominent cultural forms of modern South India, Tamil cinema and Bharatanāṭyam 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 Bharatanāṭyam 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 Bharatanāṭyam in the early decades of the 20th century"--Back cover
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305) and index
- Call Number
- *MGS (Hindu) 19-4352
- ISBN
- 0819578878
- 9780819578877
- OCLC
- 1091656049
- Author
- Krishnan, Hari (Choreographer), author.
- Title
- Celluloid classicism : early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam / Hari Krishnan.
- Publisher
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305) and index
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- *MGS (Hindu) 19-4352