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Celluloid classicism : early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanهaٍtyam

Krishnan, Hari (Choreographer), author

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\"This book investigates how two of the most prominent cultural forms of modern South India, Tamil cinema and Bharatanهaٍtyam dance, share complex and deeply intertwined histories. Celluloid classicism is about the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the late 1950s, decades that were marked by distinctly new, interocular modes of cultural production in cosmopolitan Madras. This book unsettles received histories of modern Bharatanهaٍtyam by arguing that cinema, in all its technological, moral, and visual complexities, bears heavily and irrevocably upon iterations of this 'classical' dance. Bringing over a decade of archival research into conversations with choreographic analysis and ethnography, this work addresses key questions around the fluid and reciprocal exchange of knowledge between screen and stage versions of Bharatanهaٍtyam in the early decades of the 20th century\"--Back cover

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Subject: Bharata natyam. / Dance India History 20th century. / Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. / Motion pictures, Tamil.
• ISBN: 0819578878, 9780819578877, 9780819578860

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GV1796.B4 K75 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE