Sarukkai, Sundar
(2017)
Moving bus movies.
The Hindu, 18 February 2017.
| Abstract: |
When we talk of films, we often exclusively focus on the projected image and not on the spectators and the act of seeing. So it was a pleasure to come across a new book, House Full by Lakshmi Srinivas, an anthropologist teaching in the U.S., which focuses on the movie-going experience. This book exhibits the multiple avenues that go intothe production and creation of a film and engages deeply with the lived experience of ‘going to the movies’.
Reading her book, I was reminded of repeated replays of bus journeys watching films. Recently, I travelled by a private bus from Bengaluru to Tiruchi. It was like many such journeys in an AC bus with tinted windows, pink satin curtains, unwashed seats and a surly attendant. It is impossible to travel in Tamil Nadu, or increasingly elsewhere, without being assailed, assaulted and submerged by movies or film songs. Travel is no longer a journey of introspection and exploration but of entering in the middle of one movie and exiting in the middle of a song. |
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In the Media
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| Subjects: |
School of Humanities > Philosophy |
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Schools > Humanities |
| Date Deposited: |
27 Feb 2017 10:37 |
| Last Modified: |
27 Feb 2017 10:37 |
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http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/movin... |
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http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/1238 |
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