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I Everyday Movies i is a gamechanger in film and media studies in the way it moves the scholarly gaze away from film and cinema towards a focus on the portable projector. At the same time, the chapter considers the importance of the portable projector to the military, beyond the screening of "morale" films: 'Some 75 percent of film and photography use was strictly of a strategic nature. As Wasson argues, the rapid growth of the portable film projector by the 1950s forces us, 'to radically reframe how we understand "cinema" as an infrastructure, an apparatus, and a cultural activity' (p. 153), with the portable film projector, and its "small cinema", serving, 'as the most common, accessible, and majoritarian mode for film viewing' (p. 154). [Extracted from the article]

Here, a distinction between the two subjects of anthropology and archaeology can be seen, and in modern-day India, anthropologists mostly stick to the studies of the tribal lifeways, whereas archaeologists are contained in studying the past. The influence of colonial legacy on the scholarly work of the European Mesolithic has been represented in this paper by Elliot and Warren. Elliot and Warren dive into the previously unknown deep waters of Mesolithic archaeology in the European scenario and weigh the consequences of the colonial thought process in Mesolithic archaeology globally. [Extracted from the article]