Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Participatory Filmmaking and the Anticipation of the Audience -- 3. Cinema Halls, Audiences, and the Importance of Place -- 4. Audiences Negotiate Tickets and Seating -- 5. Families, Friendship Groups, and Cinema as S…
India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted an influence that extends fro…
Popular Indian cinema provides entertainment for people from all walks of life but equally importantly, cinema provides collective experience and a common referent in a country of mind-boggling diversities. Drawing on in-depth, multi-year ethnography in the South Indian city of …
India is the largest producer and consumer of feature films in the world, far outstripping Hollywood in the number of movies released and tickets sold every year. Cinema quite simply dominates Indian popular culture, and has for many decades exerted an influence that extends fro…