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Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India

Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India

Chatterjee, Tupur

Hardcover

Series: Critical Cultural Communication, Book 51

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyIndian & South Asian Art

ISBN10: 1479829625
ISBN13: 9781479829620
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Jan 7 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Winner, 2026 Best First Book Award, given by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies

How middle-class women transformed India's screen and exhibition industries

Since the late 90s, multiplexes in India have almost always been located inside malls, rendering it impossible to inhabit one space without also inhabiting the other. Their prevalence coincides with a shift in the spectatorial imagination of India's mass audience--spaces that, for several preceding decades, had been designed for the subaltern male, but are now built for the consuming, globalized middle-class woman. By catering to the mutable desires and anxieties of a rapidly expanding and heterogeneous middle class, the mall-multiplex has radically altered the politics of theatrical space and moviegoing.

Projecting Desire tells the story of this moment of historic transition as it played out across media industries, architecture and design, popular cinema, and public culture. Tupur Chatterjee highlights how the multiplex established a new link between media and architecture in the subcontinent, not only rewriting the relation between gender and urban space, but also changing the shapes of Indian cities.

Projecting Desire locates the post-globalization transformation of India's screen and exhibition industries in a longer arc of ideas about urban planning and architecture, long mired in caste- and class-based gendered anxieties. It argues that the architectural mediations of India's moviegoing cultures are key to imagining, planning, and policing the contemporary media city. Chatterjee integrates industrial and organizational ethnography, in-depth interviews, participant observation, discourse and textual analysis, and archival work with spatial and urban histories. Focusing on these new meccas of leisure and entertainment, Projecting Desire tracks the understudied nexus between new media architectures, cultures of public leisure, and popular cinema in the Global South.

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