{"product_id":"untimely-bollywood-9780822344124","title":"Untimely Bollywood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn argument that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood cinema are emblematic of the changing conditions of media consumption in a globalizing India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Amit S Rai’s \u003ci\u003eUntimely Bollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative new addition to the fields of film, new media, and South Asian popular culture studies. . . . The scholarship is innovative in its emphasis on the sensory experiences under Bollywood’s new assemblage and compelling in its take on the politics and potentialities of the nonlinear.” - Madhavi Mallapragada,\u003ci\u003e Popular Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What Rai presents is a semiotician’s paradise. . . . Rai’s spotlight on ‘controlled consumption’ is bound to resonate with readers who have given thought to similar exhibition in America. The author deftly ties together the creation of the multiplex and the birth of the blockbuster.” - A. Hirsh, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent study and a look into this slice of the world, this book should be read by all with an interest in the new and old media assemblages of India.” - Badar Shah, \u003ci\u003eSouth Asia Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In bold divergence from representation-based studies of social identity in cinema, Amit S. Rai shifts our attention from the spectator’s encounter with a discrete film text to the media event or assemblage generating an ecology of sensations. Packed with original research, a heterodox range of theoretical influences, and innovative explorations in the idea of nonlinearity, \u003ci\u003eUntimely Bollywood\u003c\/i\u003e goes well beyond a study of globalization’s impact on India’s Hindi-language cinema. What it offers instead is a provocative thesis on affective and embodied experience under globalization’s new regimes of media consumption in India.”—\u003cb\u003ePriya Jaikumar\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Within a rapidly growing body of sophisticated work on Indian cinema, media, and popular culture, \u003ci\u003eUntimely Bollywood\u003c\/i\u003e stands out not only for its originality but also for its audacity. Its deft coordination of what at first would seem wildly heterogeneous topics is simply dazzling. There are wonderful discussions throughout that involve themselves in surprising but consistently illuminating topics, including art deco theatres, DJ culture, and Dolby sound in India. The movement through these topics is as often fun as it is enlightening.”—\u003cb\u003eCorey K. Creekmur\u003c\/b\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eCinema, Law, and the State in Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Amit S Rai’s \u003ci\u003eUntimely Bollywood\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative new addition to the fields of film, new media, and South Asian popular culture studies. . . . The scholarship is innovative in its emphasis on the sensory experiences under Bollywood’s new assemblage and compelling in its take on the politics and potentialities of the nonlinear.” -- Madhavi Mallapragada * Popular Communication *\u003cbr\u003e“An excellent study and a look into this slice of the world, this book should be read by all with an interest in the new and old media assemblages of India.” -- Badar Shah * South Asia Research *\u003cbr\u003e“What Rai presents is a semiotician’s paradise. . . . Rai’s spotlight on ‘controlled consumption’ is bound to resonate with readers who have given thought to similar exhibition in America. The author deftly ties together the creation of the multiplex and the birth of the blockbuster.” -- A. Hirsh * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: India and the New Nonlinear Media Assemblage 1\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Cinema Becoming New Media \u003cbr\u003e 1. “First Day, First Show”: Bollywood Cinemagoing and the New Sensorium 21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Contagious Multiplicities and the Nonlinear Life of the New Media 55\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Toward an Ontology of Media Durations \u003cbr\u003e 3. “The Best Quality Cinema Viewing . . . Everywhere. Everytime.”: On the Multipliex Mutagen in India 131\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"With You Every Moment in Time\": On the Emergent \u003ci\u003eIttafaq\u003c\/i\u003e (Chance) Assemblage 79\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Clinamedia 211\u003cbr\u003e Notes 221\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 275\u003cbr\u003e Index 289","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406054793559,"sku":"9780822344124","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822344124.jpg?v=1730494377","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/untimely-bollywood-9780822344124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}