Celluloid Classicism

Celluloid Classicism
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780819578884
ISBN-13 : 0819578886
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Book Synopsis Celluloid Classicism by : Hari Krishnan

Download or read book Celluloid Classicism written by Hari Krishnan and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Received a special citation from The de la Torre Bueno© First Book Award Committee of the Dance Studies Association (2020). The book has been hailed as "an invaluable addition to the scholarship on Bharatanatyam." Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance. It addresses representations of dance in the cinema from an interdisciplinary, critical-historical perspective. The intertwined and symbiotic histories of these forms have never received serious scholarly attention. For the most part, historians of South Indian cinema have noted the presence of song and dance sequences in films, but have not historicized them with reference to the simultaneous revival of dance culture among the middle-class in this region. In a parallel manner, historians of dance have excluded deliberations on the influence of cinema in the making of the "classical" forms of modern India. Although the book primarily focuses on the period between the late 1920s and 1950s, it also addresses the persistence of these mid-twentieth century cultural developments into the present. The book rethinks the history of Bharatanatyam in the twentieth century from an interdisciplinary, transmedia standpoint and features 130 archival images.


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