C Yamini Krishna
Biographic Data
| ID | 3064611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Yamini Krishna |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Yamini |
| FAMILY NAME | Krishna |
| SIGNATURE | KRISHNA C Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flame University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4250-850X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Rafai Fakirs
This paper examines the film Rafai Fakirs, made by Edmund Henderson Hunt, the Chief Medical Officer of Nizam State Railway in Hyderabad, in South India, to study the role of camera, as a scientific instrument in the hands of a physician turned anthropologist. Rafai Fakirs was a four-part film made in 1928, documenting the ‘self-mutilation practices of Muslim sect in Hyderabad,’ which the British Film Institute categorises as amateur film. The fil…
Cinema memories and single screen theatres
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India
Film was one of the new technological inventions of the 'long nineteenth century' that often instilled a fear of loss of the existing way of life and of disturbing existing social structures. In India, this manifested in a variety of ways, such as through the censorship of films by the government, but also by social codes which created major barriers for many to work in the film industry. In this article, I discuss film and its negotiations with …
Going to the cinema
The experience of the urban in nineteenth-century Hyderabad was interwoven with the experience of modern technologies like film. Cinema participated in constituting a modern public; practices of film viewing were practices of enacting the modern. Through a study of conflicts in the space of cinema, this article examines the politics of constituting and controlling the urban in the princely city of Hyderabad and the cantonment town of Secunderabad…
Princely Films
Before 1947 India had more than 560 princely states. All these states were ruled by independent princes with their own systems and laws and were not directly under the control of British. There was a great fascination for the princely states in Britain, and the early films addressed this curiosity. Several travel films, instructional films and the Durbar films presented the princely states as exotic Oriental spaces. On the other hand, the princel…
Language and Cinema
The city of Hyderabad has had a distinct linguistic and political history. It was a multilingual city with Urdu (and Persian) as the court languages under the Asaf Jahi dynasty until 1948, when it was annexed by the Indian union. While Hyderabad continues to be multilingual with Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Kannada and Tamil being spoken in the city, its identity has undergone many changes. It became the Telugu capital city with the formation of Andhra…
The neo-liberal city and cinema
Neo-liberal reforms of the 1990s in India brought new modes of operation which made cities as the central nodes of the economy. The cities were now reconfigured as servicing hubs for the global market. The spatial nature of the city and the way of life also was transformed to match the other global cities which served as examples on which the Indian cities were modelled. In case of Hyderabad, this moment of transformation to a global city creates…
Construction of Indian femininity and masculinity in Filmindia magazine 1946–1948
The paper looks at Filmindia magazines from 1946 to 1948 on the eve of transition of India from being a colony to an Independent nation. The paper uses the Habermasian public sphere, Kellner’s media culture and Gaonkar’s ideas of alternative modernities to analyse the magazine. Magazines like Filmindia constituted literary public spheres which became a site for deliberation on defining the ideals of masculinity and femininity for the new nation. …
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Construction of Indian femininity and masculinity in Filmindia magazine 1946–1948
The paper looks at Filmindia magazines from 1946 to 1948 on the eve of transition of India from being a colony to an Independent nation. The paper uses the Habermasian public sphere, Kellner’s media culture and Gaonkar’s ideas of alternative modernities to analyse the magazine. Magazines like Filmindia constituted literary public spheres which became a site for deliberation on defining the ideals of masculinity and femininity for the new nation. …
The neo-liberal city and cinema
Neo-liberal reforms of the 1990s in India brought new modes of operation which made cities as the central nodes of the economy. The cities were now reconfigured as servicing hubs for the global market. The spatial nature of the city and the way of life also was transformed to match the other global cities which served as examples on which the Indian cities were modelled. In case of Hyderabad, this moment of transformation to a global city creates…
Princely Films
Before 1947 India had more than 560 princely states. All these states were ruled by independent princes with their own systems and laws and were not directly under the control of British. There was a great fascination for the princely states in Britain, and the early films addressed this curiosity. Several travel films, instructional films and the Durbar films presented the princely states as exotic Oriental spaces. On the other hand, the princel…
Language and Cinema
The city of Hyderabad has had a distinct linguistic and political history. It was a multilingual city with Urdu (and Persian) as the court languages under the Asaf Jahi dynasty until 1948, when it was annexed by the Indian union. While Hyderabad continues to be multilingual with Telugu, Urdu, Marathi, Kannada and Tamil being spoken in the city, its identity has undergone many changes. It became the Telugu capital city with the formation of Andhra…
Going to the cinema
The experience of the urban in nineteenth-century Hyderabad was interwoven with the experience of modern technologies like film. Cinema participated in constituting a modern public; practices of film viewing were practices of enacting the modern. Through a study of conflicts in the space of cinema, this article examines the politics of constituting and controlling the urban in the princely city of Hyderabad and the cantonment town of Secunderabad…
Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India
Film was one of the new technological inventions of the 'long nineteenth century' that often instilled a fear of loss of the existing way of life and of disturbing existing social structures. In India, this manifested in a variety of ways, such as through the censorship of films by the government, but also by social codes which created major barriers for many to work in the film industry. In this article, I discuss film and its negotiations with …
Cinema memories and single screen theatres
Rafai Fakirs
This paper examines the film Rafai Fakirs, made by Edmund Henderson Hunt, the Chief Medical Officer of Nizam State Railway in Hyderabad, in South India, to study the role of camera, as a scientific instrument in the hands of a physician turned anthropologist. Rafai Fakirs was a four-part film made in 1928, documenting the ‘self-mutilation practices of Muslim sect in Hyderabad,’ which the British Film Institute categorises as amateur film. The fil…
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