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Description: Video details - 5rDPOW3KNhM: Monday, November 11 A talk by Debashree Mukherjee (MESAAS) “Impassioned Speech: Talkie Cinema in Colonial Bombay" Abstract: Sound transformed the career of cinema in India. But, in 1931, the “all talking, singing, and dancing” Indian film did not enter an empty space of silence. This talk locates Indian cinema’s transition from the silent era to the talkies within a dense acoustic ecology of already existing aural and technological practices, proposing that the newness of the talkies relied on the ambivalent modernity of the embodied voice. While the early talkie in South Asia is credited with the consolidation of the musical song-dance format of Bollywood, speech and dialogue, both highly understudied, were critical to the consolidation of India’s film industries. In considering the status of speech and dialogue in early talkie films of the 1930s, the talk draws continuities between a thriving public culture of political and pedagogical speechmaking and a declamatory drive in cinema. What is particularly intriguing is that while public speechmaking was a realm presided over by men, filmic scenes of passionate argumentation were predominantly enacted by women. The corporeality of the cinematic voice was heightened by its location in the charged social body of the film actress. Debashree Mukherjee is Assistant Professor of film and media in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. She is currently completing a manuscript titled “Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City,” which provides a practice and practitioner-oriented history of the consolidation of the Bombay cine-ecology at a time of intense social, political, and economic flux in colonial India. The book is inspired by Debashree’s prior career in Mumbai’s film and television industries (2004-2007). Debashree edits the peer review journal, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, and has curated archival exhibitions of film ephemera and photographic objects. In Spring 2020, she will be based in Paris on a fellowship at the Institute of Ideas & Imagination, Reid Hall, where she begins work on a new project on the monsoon, media, and migration in the Indian Ocean region.
