The Multiplex in India: A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure

ISBN-13: 9780415468374 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 256 str.

Athique Adrian

Opis

This text provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the new leisure infrastructure arising at the intersection between contemporary trends in cultural practice and the spatial politics that are reshaping the cities of India.

Recenzje

"This is a pioneering attempt to situate the multiplex not merely as a space of film exhibition, but a space that becomes the arbiter of cultural economy and aesthetic evaluations. Locating it within the larger debates on changing Indian cities, the authors establish how the closed dialectical relationship between the space and those who inhabit it becomes a key negotiation between self and the legitimate other... This extraordinary book must be read widely and acknowledged for its courage to argue against the aesthetic subversion of many publics, their cities, and their film-exhibition spaces by the multiplex." - Akshaya Kumar; Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 20, No. 3, September 2012

Spis treści

1. Situating the Multiplex as a Research Object  2. From Cinema Hall to Multiplex: A Public History  3. Film Exhibition and the Economic Logic of the Multiplex  4. India Poised: Assessing the Geography of Opportunity  5. Location and Lifestyle: The Infrastructure of Urban Leisure  6. Spatial Politics of the Multiplex: An Environmental Model  7. A ‘Decent Crowd’: The Social Imagination of the Multiplex Public  8. Screening The Multiplex.  Conclusion: The Multiplex and the Leisure Economy: Future Implications