Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality

Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality is a critical history of Marathi cinema. It locates Marathi cinema in an aesthetic and industrial in-betweenness, to give a historical account of region as performance in Marathi films.

Hrishikesh Ingle is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Studies, at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He was Visiting Professor at Oakton Community College, Chicago, and has worked as Lecturer in English at KTHM College, Nashik. He has a PhD from Savitribai Phule University of Pune. He is presently associated with a research project on contemporary new cinemas in India, and is writing on the current new wave of Marathi Cinema. Hrishikesh is also a creative writer and filmmaker. His poems and short stories have been published in leading literary journals. Frequently, he likes to explore the shape of colours while learning to paint in watercolour.

Preface
Introduction
1: Cinema, Regional Space, and Liminality
2: Kolhapur, Pune and the Studios
3: Literary Performative Space: 1950s-1960s
4: Rural Performative Space: 1960-1970
5: New Wave Films: Between the Aesthetics of Realism
6: The Kondke Turn: Celebrating Comic Culture
7: Towards Renewal: Regional Cinemas and the Neoliberal Space
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