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Tracing the rise of video halls and transient media forms in Bengal: an archaeology of the non-archived

Ghosh, Dattatreya

Inter-Asia cultural studies, 2023-06, Vol.24 (3), p.525-537 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Tracing the rise of video halls and transient media forms in Bengal: an archaeology of the non-archived
Autor: Ghosh, Dattatreya
Assuntos: Archaeology ; Archives & records ; Ethnography ; Mass media ; Transactions
É parte de: Inter-Asia cultural studies, 2023-06, Vol.24 (3), p.525-537
Descrição: The lack of archival materials and objects appears as a primary challenge in conducting research on the history of media and communications in India, specifically while writing a comprehensive historical account of Bengali cinema. This paper will try to look at video halls and video tapes as the transient media spaces and objects. In the case of West Bengal, video tapes and video halls are an important part of media history about which little has been written or researched. This paper will try to look into the process of writing media history of scarcely archived media forms following the method of media archaeology and question how the method becomes important in cases of absence of archival materials. This paper will also try to enquire how media ethnography unfolds a different narrative of media history which is otherwise absent in the material archives or institutional records. Using the theoretical framework of the study of archives, this paper tries to explore new archives which present a different hist
Editor: Abingdon: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Idioma: Chinês;Inglês

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