Documentary films in India : critical aesthetics at work / Aparna Sharma, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of Claifornia, Los Angeles, USA.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-263) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- PART I. 1. Constructing the Self, Constructing Others ; 2. New Boys at the Doon School ; 3. Gandhi's Children -- PART II. 4. An Arrested Eye: Trauma and Becoming in Desire Machine Collective's Documentary Installations ; 5. Passage 6. ; Residue -- PART III. 7. A Turn Towards the Classical: The Documentaries of Kumar Shahani ; 8. The Bamboo Flute Epilogue.
Summary:
"This book introduces the diverse practices of documentary films in India. It examines the oeuvres of three non-canonical practitioners: ethnographic filmmaker, David MacDougall; northeast India-based moving-image artists group, Desire Machine Collective; and avant-garde filmmaker and cinema philosopher, Kumar Shahani. Sharma offers in-depth analysis of these practitioners' distinct documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critical and self-reflexive approach to documentary-making in India. The book commences with an overview of the factors that have shaped the political contours of documentary-making in India, before introducing the select practitioners as a counter-point to the dominant and canonical tendencies of documentary films in India. Three sections of the book take up one filmmaker each, whose oeuvre is studied in-depth with a view to explore and articulate how the critical discourse and aesthetic strategies of their films evolve"-- Provided by publisher.
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