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Breaking Bollywood: Moving pictures on mobile screens

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dc.creatorTanvir, Kuhu
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-08T13:24:56Z
dc.date.available2019-01-08T13:24:56Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the exhibition and consumption of popular Hindi films in the mobile phone landscape in India. Discourse on watching media on cellphones has focused on the lack of immersion as a shortcoming of the cellphone as a screen. This criticism is rooted in the most traditional aspects of Apparatus Theory. I argue that immersion as a category is inadequate to understand the massive changes in visual culture that are enabled by the cellphone as a screening device. In India, the film and the mobile phone industries have a thriving pirate underbelly that co-exists with and constantly undermines the ‘official’ industry. In studying the intersections between cinema, mobility, and piracy, I hope to illustrate how the cellphone has shaped a viewing culture that is marked by poor quality images, pirated media, and failure, leading to a fragmentation of the film object that is not mourned but rather celebrated for the possibilities of access that it opens up.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/3424
dc.identifier.urihttps://necsus-ejms.org/breaking-bollywood-moving-pictures-on-mobile-screens/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/4193
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectBollywooden
dc.subjectcellphoneen
dc.subjectIndiaen
dc.subjectmobile phoneen
dc.subjectpiracyen
dc.subjectresolutionen
dc.subjectscreenen
dc.subjectMobiltelefoniede
dc.subjectPirateriede
dc.subjectBildschirmde
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleBreaking Bollywood: Moving pictures on mobile screensen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTanvir, Kuhu (2018): Breaking Bollywood: Moving pictures on mobile screens. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 7 (1), 217–233. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/3424.
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local.coverpage2020-11-22T11:04:09
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://necsus-ejms.org/breaking-bollywood-moving-pictures-on-mobile-screens/
local.source.epage233
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage217
local.source.volume7

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