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Video Culture in India: The Analog Era narrates the evolution of video technology in India since its introduction in the 1980s, locating the moment within the country's socio-political context.
List of contents
- Introduction: Video Modernities
- Chapter 1: Screening Conjugality: The Affective Infrastructure of the Marriage Video
- Chapter 2: Video as Intimacy: A Biography of Hiba
- Chapter 3: Unsettling News: Newstrack and the Video Event
- Chapter 4: The Afterlives of the Video Pravachana: The Cult of Rajneeshees
- Afterword: The Future Is Nostalgic
About the author
Ishita Tiwary is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Her research interests include video cultures, media infrastructures, migration, contraband media practices, and media aesthetics. She has published essays in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, JumpCut, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities, Culture Machine, and MARG: Journal of Indian Art, and in edited collections on the topics of media piracy, video histories, and streaming platforms.
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Video Culture in India: The Analog Era narrates the evolution of video technology in India since its introduction in the 1980s, locating the moment within the country's socio-political context.
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In an era defined by digital screens and streaming video, it is easy to forget the transformative impact of analog video in postcolonial media cultures. Drawing on an impressive range of archival sources, trade materials, and interviews, Ishita Tiwary offers a compelling analysis of the cultural life of an influential but largely neglected media form in 1980s India. Imaginative and accessible, this book makes vital contributions to film and media studies.
