Cinema’s Power: Hollywood, Bollywood and the Art of Enchantment
Explore the captivating journey of cinema, from its origins in panoramas and photography to the enchanting spectacles of Hollywood and Bollywood. This video delves into the transformative power of cinema, its role in political mobilisation, and its potential as a propaganda tool. We’ll discuss iconic films like Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and D W Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, examining their impact and the reactions they provoked. We’ll also touch upon the rise of Hollywood and Bollywood, and how cinema has evolved with the changing global political climate. Join us as we navigate the fascinating world of cinema, its enchantment, and its enduring influence.
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00:00 Outlook brings to you excerpts from its latest issue titled Cinema Politico.
00:06 The issue explores politics and cinema and the ever blurring lines between the two.
00:12 Ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a slew of propaganda movies have hit the big screen and OTT platforms amid much criticism and approach,
00:22 while many more films are slated to release in the coming weeks stirring even a bigger debate.
00:28 The latest issue of Outlook looks at the genre of nationalist and propaganda films in the Indian context
00:35 and also continues with the exploration of the ideology question in the context of upcoming general elections.
00:42 Both themes are contextual and linked in many ways.
00:47 The Spectre of Einstein by Shayan Dev Chaudhary, he teaches literature and cinema at CREA University in Andhra Pradesh.
00:54 He explores how cinemas real potency to harness the power of enchantment might want to militate against its use as a servile conformist propaganda vehicle.
01:06 Moscow 1925, in a forlorn theatre with minimal acoustic support and without any publicity, a film is being exhibited once a day.
01:17 Inside the theatre there is hardly any attentive soul, none care for it outside either.
01:22 Very soon the film is taken out of theatres, marked to be shelled in the Cinema Morgue, a forgotten corner or Sokino, the institution that bankrolled Soviet cinema.
01:34 Same year, from Berlin to New York, critics and audiences freeze in awe and exasperation.
01:41 Exactly when did cinema become Soviet scherule?
01:44 Who taught the young Kiev-born director how to make such eye-popping use of montage?
01:51 When did this new art become a weapon?
01:54 Was this history as cinema or was this cinema as history?
01:59 Early 40s, the Calcutta Film Society is at its infancy.
02:04 Even if its members include arc film critic Chidananda Dasgupta and a very tall and lanky young cinephile whom his peers would refer to as Orient Longman, it was Satyajit Ray.
02:18 In a dingy rented room, they decided to show to a very handful of co-enthusiasts an avant-garde specimen of cinema that is said to have embodied the Soviet situation, telling its story to the world.
02:31 But before they could, the local police arrived.
02:34 Of all films, why this one? they asked.
02:37 Do you have any plans to trigger a revolution?
02:40 The said film, in all three cases, is Einstein's Battleship Potemkin.
02:45 In any discussion of cinema's potency for political mobilization, it is the urtext.
02:51 But let's not draw our conclusions too soon.
02:53 For this and more, read the latest issue of Outlook.