Cinema, the City, and Color: Tracing the Shifts in Indian Film

Описание: Prof. Ranjani Majumdar, Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in conversation with Bindu Menon, Faculty, Azim Premji University, speaks about her work on Indian cinema and its links with the city, technology, and color. In this conversation, she discusses her first book Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City, her current research on color and infrastructure in Indian cinema, and her role in developing the Cinema Studies programme at JNU.

She explains how cinema functions as an archive of the city and how the move from analog to digital technologies has shaped film form and viewing practices. The discussion also looks at the use of color, sound, and production design, the growth of Cinema Studies in Indian universities, and the changes in the film industry after the pandemic.

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