Bollywood in the Age of New Media

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Cinematic "Assemblages": The 1990s and Earlier The Realism Debate What is an Assemblage? Assemblages of Totality Assemblages of Temporality Postulated Resolutions The Thing-in-the-Assemblage The Body-in-the-Assemblage: The Dalit The Body-in-the-Assemblage: The Woman The Geo-televisual and Hindi Film in the Age of Information Introduction The Geo-televisual in the Age of the All-India Film (1947-88) The Geo-televisual as Informatic (1991-2004) Informatic Modernization Allegories of Power/Information The First Story of the Nation: The Metropolis Comes to the Village The Second Story of the Nation: How Mumbai Can Become a Metropolis The Traffic Jam Cleaning up the Cinematic City The State of Information Iconic Genealogies VI HOLLYWOOD IN THE AGE OF NEW MEDIA Sovereignty as Melodrama: The "Lalloo Assemblage" 147 Nayak as Allegory 149 4. The Music of Intolerable Love: Indian Film Music, Globalization, and the Sound of Partitioned Selves 156 Toward a Lyric: History of India 156 The Song Sequence 158 The Music of Intolerable Love 162 Part III: Myth and Repetition 5. Technopolis and the Ramayana: New Temporalities 181 Introduction 181 Epic Melodrama 182 Digital Inscription and the Mythic Depths of Time 183 Temporality 185 The Sacralization of Special Effects 190 The Aryan Brahmin 191 Translation 192 Hodology 193 Vedic Computation 195 Global Terror and Vedic Sublime 196 Conclusion 197 6. Repetitions with Difference: Mother India and her Thousand Sons 201 Introduction 201 Mother India: Repetitions of a National Monotheme 203 Mother India 207 Deewar (The Wall) 210 Aatish (The Mirror) 215 Vaastav (Reality) 224 Encounters of the State and the Twilight of the Mythic Natality 228 Epilogue 233 Bibliography 237 Index 251