Traveling Styles: Or the Challenge of Approaching Commercial Hindi Cinema as World Cinema

Authors

  • Alexandra Schneider Universiteit van Amsterdam

Abstract

This article proposes a contribution to a methodological and theoretical discussion in contemporary film studies: how to study and teach cinema cultures in the age of globalization? In a first step, the approach to World Literature proposed by literary scholar Franco Moretti is re-visited and discussed in terms of its productivity and limitations. The article then asks if cinematic traditions can be understood in a comparative perspective, as the result of processes of mutual exchange, circulation and friction beyond the confines of a paradigm of national cinema, and along pathways of circulation not necessarily shaped and controlled by the supposedly inevitable forces of Western capitalism. Commercial Hindi cinema is used as a case study – the article in particular discusses the temporal-spatial constellation of Pakeezah (Pure One, Kamal Amrohi, 1972).

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Published

2013-03-01

How to Cite

Schneider, A. (2013). Traveling Styles: Or the Challenge of Approaching Commercial Hindi Cinema as World Cinema. Cinéma & Cie. Film and Media Studies Journal, 13(20). Retrieved from https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/cinemaetcie/article/view/16270