Introduction..........X
SECTION I REMEMBRANCE AND FORGETTING

1 RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE... 1
Now and Elsewhere: The Problem and the Provocation (2010)
2 R.V. RAMANI... My Camera and Tsunami (2006)15
3 SUDHIR MAHADEVAN.. The Protocols of Popular Film Historiography (2015) 20
4 SEBASTIAN LÜTGERT... In the Face of Ambiguity, Refuse the Temptation to Guess (2021) 42
5 SUBHAJIT CHATTERJEE.. The Brothers Ghosh: Bengal, Its Art Cinema and Its Homegrown Exploitation Genres (2019) 49
6 DARSHANA SREEDHAR MINI.. Disappearance, Desire and Haunting (2016) 68
7 KAUSHIKBHAUMIK and DESIRE MACHINE COLLECTIVE.. Death Becomes Her: Bombay Cinema, Nation and Kashmir (2014)86
8 INSERT: Prayoga by Amrit Gangar (2012).102

SECTION II ARTIST AS CITIZEN

9 GEETA KAPUR...

A Cultural Conjuncture in India: Art into Documentary (2004) 120

10 NANCY ADAJANIA.. The Ecologies of Technological Experimentation: Sheba Chhachhi's Multimedia Environments (2018) .143

11 SHOHINI GHOSH, SABINA KIDWAI, SHIKHA JHINGAN, RANJANI MAZUMDAR, SABEENA GADIHOKE, CHARU
GARGI. Mediastorm: Memories of a Collective (1991) 166

12 PAROMITA VOHRA... 175

Who is the First Person? On Making Documentaries (2011)

13 NALINI MALANI. 189

Can You Hear Me? (2019)

14 INSERT: The Trial (1970, 2003).......201

SECTION III POST-CINEMATIC FLOWS

15 JEEBESH BAGCHI. The Cinematic Object After the 1990s (2005) 212
16 ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA. SRK, Cinema and the Citizen: What's Next? (2010) 224
17 GEETA PATEL.. Firing Time (2016) 249
18 MADHUJA MUKHERJEE.. Toward a New Frame for Regional Films: Manbhum Videos and the Other Side of (Indian) Cinema (2016) 260
19 S.V. SRINIVAS. The Gaddar Effect: Maoism, Mass Culture and the Legacies of Cinema (2016) 275
20 LAWRENCE LIANG... From Cinema to the Moving Image and Back (2012) 293
21 EPILOGUE: Ten Theses on the Archive by Pad.ma (2010)...................310

Keywords......326

Notes and References...345

Acknowledgements.....377