Introduction: Wondrous screens in India: cinema halls, place, public, and cinephilia 1. The early world of cinema, expansion of theatres in Bombay and a map of the city via cinema-halls 2. Maratha Mandir, Bombay: cartographies of difficult histories of a metropolis 3. Something slippery: A speculative history of Calcutta cinemas through court-room documents 4. The Prabhat trajectory in Pune: studio, theatre and film practice (1934?present) 5. Cinema-going in a mofussil town: recalling the life and times of Lakshmi Talkies, Allahabad 6. Tirunelveli, touring talkies and tent cinemas: multiple stories of single-screens 7. The political economy of the single-screen cinema with respect to Bombay cinema 8. Escaping the DVD dispositif: John Abraham and the historical exhibition 9. The ‘Celluloid Chapter’ in Jamshedpur: break journeys and film society cinephilia 10. Cinema memories and single screen theatres: Yakut Mahal theatre, Hyderabad 11. After the single screen: performing publics at large 12. The ‘Great Unknown’: the movie theatre in our time 13. Cinema and its spectral returns: the single-screen viewer at the site of artistic re-imagination 14. Watching films in Kashmir Valley, 1960?1990: an interview with Inder Salim, artist