Dwelling In (On) Bombay Cinema

Part A: An Extended Prologue
4. The components and
academic framework of
this work is outlined on
page ii.
Synthesizing the need to communicate the analytical study in order
to create knowledge that contributes to the body of academic
investigations into housing in Bombay and additionally, if Bombay
cinema were to indeed be a legitimate means of social introspection,
the primary objective becomes evident:
To communicate the domestic condition of the
“dwelling” in Bombay through a reading of its cinema
using an audio-visual discourse to an urban
and academic audience.
Project Scope
The following study is developed within the Master in Architectural
Communication programme at the Technical University in
Madrid.
The project 4 proposed is an experimental exercise in architectural
communication wherein the product (the audio-visual) is designed
to convey the findings of an analytical study to a partly
pre-defined public. The study doesn’t merely involve communicating
existing observations. Rather, the observations themselves
are organised with an awareness of their capability of being communicated.
Although the archives are required to be filtered and
navigated in a logical way, there is no unique method that can be
followed in order to filter the films that are to be analysed. The
filtering and selection methodology is outlined in the chapter1.3
entitled: “Confronting the Archives.”
The project shall consist of two phases: the first including the research
within the realm of Bombay’s cinematic universe including
popular cinema shot and recording in Bombay. Consequently, the
second phase involves production of the communicative product
using digital film editing proceeded by an analytical critique of
the same product in order to arrive at the relevant conclusions.
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