Songs in Indian Cinema: Media Archeological Possibilities

ConTrust Research seminar „India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia“

With Rochona Majumdar

A considerable body of research has been devoted to understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema in terms of the ubiquity of songs and song and dance sequences. What happens if we treat songs as a medium situated both within and outside the film object/text? Dis-embedding the song from the film within which it is situated allows us to analyze it as a media object on its own. What are the yields of such an archeological approach?

Rochona Majumdar is Professor in the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.

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