Abstract
That the adaptation of international ideas and foreign technology had an impact on local film culture, is not a new idea in Indian cinema. Nevertheless, more scholarship and greater familiarity with extant literature are needed. This article aims to contribute to the study of the integration process of early Indian films into World cinema. This article considers the early ‘glocalization’ in Indian cinema which traces the process of universalizing particular experiences in silent cinema and transcending from the local to (achieve) global levels. Through the analysis of the films of Dada Saheb Phalke and Himanshu Rai, two film producers who were hugely impacted by the European style of filmmaking, I will discuss how their global vision with local considerations played a decisive role in shaping the early Indian film history. I argue how local and global forces in Phalke and Rai’s cinema boosted cultural open-mindedness and economic growth.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Inhaltsverzeichnis – Table des Matières – Contents
- Natural Constraints to Cultural Relativism Example: Ricci’s Pacific-Centered World Maps
- It Is Only Gazouz: Muslims and Champagne in the Colonial Maghreb
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817) – der Basler Orientreisende malgré lui und sein Besuch bei den Drusen im Gebiet des Mont-Liban
- Unfertige Studien 6: Der Brudermord des Kain aus theologischer Sicht
- Glocalization Narratives in Indian Literature and Cinema: An Introduction
- Becoming a Crorepati: From Glocal TV Game to Grobal Fiction
- Early ‘Glocalization’ in Indian Cinema: An Analysis of Films of Dada Saheb Phalke and Himanshu Rai
- Charulata 2011: Dramatizing the Glocal
- Seeing Kolkata: Globalization and the Changing Context of the Narrative of Bengali-ness in Two Contemporary Films
- A Queer Lack of Success. Discourses on Same-sex Love and Neoliberalism in the Hindi Novel Paṃkhvālī Nāv by Paṃkaj Biṣṭ
- Modern Durgas Fighting against the Demons of Globalization
- From Topophilia to Despair. Kashinath Singh’s Banaras Trilogy
- Book Reviews – Buchbesprechungen – Comptes Rendus
- Robyn Creswell: City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut
- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley and Huang, Shih-shan Susan: Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China
- Zaman, Muhammad Qasim: Islam in Pakistan: A History
- Ahrens, Tobias: Kampō. Einführung in die japanische Pflanzenheilkunde in 25 Fragen und Antworten
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Inhaltsverzeichnis – Table des Matières – Contents
- Natural Constraints to Cultural Relativism Example: Ricci’s Pacific-Centered World Maps
- It Is Only Gazouz: Muslims and Champagne in the Colonial Maghreb
- Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817) – der Basler Orientreisende malgré lui und sein Besuch bei den Drusen im Gebiet des Mont-Liban
- Unfertige Studien 6: Der Brudermord des Kain aus theologischer Sicht
- Glocalization Narratives in Indian Literature and Cinema: An Introduction
- Becoming a Crorepati: From Glocal TV Game to Grobal Fiction
- Early ‘Glocalization’ in Indian Cinema: An Analysis of Films of Dada Saheb Phalke and Himanshu Rai
- Charulata 2011: Dramatizing the Glocal
- Seeing Kolkata: Globalization and the Changing Context of the Narrative of Bengali-ness in Two Contemporary Films
- A Queer Lack of Success. Discourses on Same-sex Love and Neoliberalism in the Hindi Novel Paṃkhvālī Nāv by Paṃkaj Biṣṭ
- Modern Durgas Fighting against the Demons of Globalization
- From Topophilia to Despair. Kashinath Singh’s Banaras Trilogy
- Book Reviews – Buchbesprechungen – Comptes Rendus
- Robyn Creswell: City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut
- Ebrey, Patricia Buckley and Huang, Shih-shan Susan: Visual and Material Cultures in Middle Period China
- Zaman, Muhammad Qasim: Islam in Pakistan: A History
- Ahrens, Tobias: Kampō. Einführung in die japanische Pflanzenheilkunde in 25 Fragen und Antworten