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La projection morcelée

Fragments de films, intermédiaires et public dans un cinéma de Bombay
Emmanuel Grimaud
p. 81-104

Abstracts

Reshaping the Vision: Film Scraps, Middlemen and the Public in a Bombay Motion-picture Theater. -- Anthropological analyses of motion-picture screenings in India often have preset ideas about the encounter between the cinema and its public, and thus fail to inquire into the organization of this encounter. According to them, Indian film-goers swing back and forth between two extreme forms of recognition: being a victim of the moving picture illusion or a cynical viewer. Raja Filmwala, a small movie theater in Bombay which projects "film fragment", forces us to reconstruct the most current theories of viewing in film studies, theories that reduce this phenomenon (a dynamic constellation) to a simple relation with two terms. The method herein adopts several "tracking" elements (middlemen, the physical film, tickets, film-goers) in order to reconstitute the event in its continuity and novelty in relation to earlier phases in the process of "cinematographic elaboration". The intention is to understand the constraints entailed by the screening of a film as a preliminary datum about the whole process.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Emmanuel Grimaud, “La projection morcelée”L’Homme, 164 | 2002, 81-104.

Electronic reference

Emmanuel Grimaud, “La projection morcelée”L’Homme [Online], 164 | octobre-décembre 2002, Online since 14 June 2003, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/lhomme/190; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.190

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