[Reader-list] Ashish Rajadhyaksha at SAA

[Ishita Tiwary]

School of Arts and Aesthetics

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Presents

A Talk By

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Independent Scholar

Co-editor of the landmark

*Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema* (2001) and author of *Indian Cinema in the
Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency* (2009)





 ‘Slow Descent into Digital Hell’: How the Moving Image is Coping with
Digital India



*Abstract*



The Indian cinema today survives primarily in a digital environment. If,
through the 20th century, the public process of making and showing moving
images provided one of the major institutions of democratic modernity in
the movie theatre, the question can be asked: how is the moving image
transforming its vast and complex spectatorial arrangements, devised over
the better part of fifty years, into this new era?

This presentation places new Bollywood, alongside works in experimental
video, into the complex and often fraught space that is digital India, to
ask what several standard and essentially political practices that the
cinema had once put together within a democratic public domain look like
today. It will look at video games accompanying Bollywood releases and the
gritty realism of its independent cinema, together with the work of a few
key video artists, to inquire into a transformed political process taking
place within a new process of digital governance.



At the SAA Auditorium

Friday, December 11, 2015

5.00 pm.

Tea will be served at 4.30

All are Welcome