India Retold

Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India

Rajesh James, Sathyaraj Venkatesan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8015-0 (ISBN)

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India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the engagement of independent documentary filmmakers with the postcolonial India and its discourses with a focus on their independent documentary practices. Structured as an interview collection, the book examines how these documentary filmmakers, though not a homogeneous category, practice their independence through their ideology, their filmmaking praxis, their engagement with the everyday and their formal experiments. As a sparsely studied filmmakers, the book through meticulously tracing a wide ranging historical transitions (often marked by communal conflicts and the forces of globalization) not only details the ways in which independent filmmakers in India address the questions of postcolonial nation and its modernist projects but also explores their idiosyncratic views of these filmmakers which are characterized by a definitive departure from the logic of commercial films or state-sponsored documentary films. More important in many ways, these documentary filmmakers expose incongruences in national institutions and programs, embrace the voice of the underrepresented, and thus, imagine an alternative vision of the nation. During the last three years of the execution of the project, thirty Indian documentary filmmakers are interviewed in this book. Given the dearth of quality interviews and little theoretical engagement with documentary as a genre, this book would not only fill in the gap in scholarship but also would serve as an authentic guide for interested readers and for documentary filmmakers alike.

Rajesh James is an independent documentary filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of English at Sacred Heart College, Kochi, India. His major documentary films include In Thunder, Lightning and Rain (2019) Naked Wheels (2017) and Zebra Lines (2014). Shaped by the conventions of cinema verite and ethnography, his key thematic concerns are gender, caste and, subalternity as refracted through the prism of labour. He was awarded Riyad Wadia Award for the Best Emerging Filmmaker, India in 2017. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. He is the author of nine books and over hundred research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and cultural studies disciplines. He is most recently co-editor of Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022).

Acknowledgements

Foreword
Aparna Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Introduction
Rajesh James and Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Decoding Ideology: Nationalism, Communalism and Its Critiques
Anand Patwardhan
Tapan Bose
Amar Kanwar
Rakesh Sharma
Gopal Menon
Nakul Singh Sawhney
Kasturi Basu

The Subversive Eye: Gender and Sexual Identities
Deepa Dhanraj
Madhusree Dutta
Saba Dewan
Paromita Vohra
Rahul Roy
Surabhi Sharma
Nishtha Jain
Sridhar Rangayan

Radical Inequality: Casting the Caste
Amudhan R.P.
Divya Bharathi

“Be True to the Earth”: Mapping the Post-Natural India
Sanjay Kak
Meghnath
Shriprakash
Biju Toppo

Thinking through Regions: Nation and its Discontents
Iffat Fatima
R.V. Ramani
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Anjali Monteiro/K.P. Jayasankar
Haobam Paban Kumar
Bilal A. Jan
Stanzin Dorjai Gya
Raja Shabir Khan
Mukul Haloi

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	58 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5013-8015-X / 150138015X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8015-0 / 9781501380150
Zustand	Neuware