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Ishita Tiwary is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, Montreal. Her research interests include video cultures, media infrastructures, migration, contraband media practices, and media aesthetics. She has published essays in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, JumpCut, Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Post Script: Essays in Film and Humanities, Culture Machine, and MARG: Journal of Indian Art, and in edited collections on the topics of media piracy, video histories, and streaming platforms.
In a highly enjoyable, innovative, and insightful book, Video Culture in India, Ishita Tiwary examines the video revolution in India and the radical new possibilities it opened up. Locating the arrival of video technology within India's socio-political context, the book illustrates how video recorders innovated new distribution infrastructures, new spaces of exhibition, and new media genres for Indian audiences. Blending entertaining detail with scholarly precision, Tiwary decisively shows how video was a revolution in aesthetics and grassroots media and, ultimately, a cultural force that reshaped the media landscape in India. * Brian Larkin, Professor of Anthropology and Co-Director, Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University * In an era defined by digital screens and streaming video, it is easy to forget the transformative impact of analog video in postcolonial media cultures. Drawing on an impressive range of archival sources, trade materials, and interviews, Ishita Tiwary offers a compelling analysis of the cultural life of an influential but largely neglected media form in 1980s India. Imaginative and accessible, this book makes vital contributions to film and media studies. * Aswin Punathambekar, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and Director, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) *
