Documentary Film In India

Author : Giulia Battaglia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351375634

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Documentary Film in India by Giulia Battaglia Pdf

This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. The book navigates different historical moments of the growth of documentary filmmaking in India from the colonial period to the present day. In the process, it touches upon questions concerning practices and discourses about colonial films, postcolonial institutions, independent films, filmmakers and filmmaking, the influence of feminism and the articulation of concepts of performance and performativity in various films practices. It also reflects on the centrality of technological change in different historical moments and that of film festivals and film screenings across time and space. Grounded in anthropological fieldwork and archival research and adopting Foucault’s concept of ‘effective history’, this work searches for points of origin that creates ruptures and deviations taking distance from conventional ways of writing film histories. Rather than presenting a univocal set of arguments and conclusions about changes or new developments of film techniques, the originality of the book is in offering an open structure (or an open archive) to enable the reader to engage with mechanisms of creation, engagement and participation in film and art practices at large. In adopting this form, the book conceptualises ‘Anthropology’ as also an art practice, interested, through its theoretico-methodological approach, in creating an open archive of engagement rather than a representation of a distant ‘other’. Similarly, documentary filmmaking in India is seen as primarily a process of creation based on engagement and participation rather than a practice interested in representing an objective reality. Proposing an innovative way of perceiving the growth of the documentary film genre in the subcontinent, this book will be of interest to film historians and specialists in Indian cinema(s) as well as academics in the field of anthropology of art, media and visual practices and Asian media studies.

Author : Shweta Kishore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1474433073

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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers by Shweta Kishore Pdf

Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system.

Author : Thomas King
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385690171

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The Inconvenient Indian Illustrated by Thomas King Pdf

An illustrated edition of the award-winning, bestselling Canadian classic, featuring over 150 images that add colour and context to this extraordinary work. "Every Canadian should read [this] book." —Toronto Star Since its publication in 2012, The Inconvenient Indian has become an award-winning bestseller and a modern classic. In its pages, Thomas King tells the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Native and Indigenous people in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. This new, provocatively illustrated edition matches essential visuals to the book's urgent words, and in so doing deepens and expands King's message. With more than 150 images—from artwork, photographs, advertisements and archival documents to contemporary representations of Native peoples by Native peoples, including some by King himself—this unforgettable volume vividly shows how "Indians" have been seen, understood, propagandized, represented and reinvented in North America. Here is a book both timeless and timely, burnished with anger and tempered by wit, and ultimately a hard-won offering of hope—an inconvenient but necessary account for all of us seeking to tell a new story, in both words and images, for the future.

Author : Jag Mohan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Documentary films
ISBN : UOM:39015024974084

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Documentary Films and National Awakening by Jag Mohan Pdf

Author : Shweta Kishore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474433082

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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers by Shweta Kishore Pdf

Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system.

Author : Peter Sutoris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economic development in motion pictures
ISBN : 0190663006

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Visions of Development by Peter Sutoris Pdf

This work examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. It pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analyzing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', the author highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India.

Author : Aida Vallejo,Ezra Winton
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030173203

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Documentary Film Festivals Vol. 1 by Aida Vallejo,Ezra Winton Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the global landscape of documentary film festivals. Contributors from across the globe offer in-depth analysis of both internationally renowned and more alternative festivals, including Hot Docs (Canada), Nyon (Switcherland), Yamagata (Japan), DocChina, Full Frame (US), Belgrade (former Yugoslavia), Vikalp (India), and DocsBarcelona (Catalonia, Spain), among others. With a special focus on historical and political developments, this first volume draws a map of documentary festivals operating today, and then looks at their origins and evolution. This volume is organized in three sections: the first addresses methodological problems film historians and social scientists face when researching documentary film festivals, the second looks at the historical development of this circuit within the wider frame of history of world and national cinemas, and the third reflects on how politics find their way through festival programs and actions. Curatorial, organizational, industrial and political changes occurred in the festival realm addressed in this book help better understand how these affected documentary production, distribution, curation, exhibition and reception up to this day.

Author : Aparna Sharma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137395443

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Documentary Films in India by Aparna Sharma Pdf

This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critical and self-reflexive approach to documentary-making in India.

Author : Peter Sutoris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1849045712

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Visions of Development by Peter Sutoris Pdf

Visions of Development examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analysing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', his book highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India. It is the first scholarly volume to be published on the history of Indian documentary film. Of the approximately 250 documentaries analysed by Peter Sutoris, many of which have never been discussed in the existing literature, most are concerned with economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, schemes aimed at the integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education. Almost all films analysed in this volume are available for free online viewing through the website of the Films Division. Links are provided on the companion website www.visionsofdevelopment.com.

Author : Dr. Harendra Pratap Singh Chouhan
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Documentary Film Making on Tribal in India by Dr. Harendra Pratap Singh Chouhan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Odissi dance
ISBN : OCLC:79649600

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Documentary Films of India by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. P. Jayasankar,Anjali Monteiro
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353881595

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A Fly in the Curry by K. P. Jayasankar,Anjali Monteiro Pdf

An engaging read on independent documentary filmmaking in India

Author : Ian Aitken
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474407229

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Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia by Ian Aitken Pdf

Based on rare archival documents and films, this anthology is the first to focus primarily on the use of official and colonial documentary films in the South and South-East Asian regions. Drawing together a range of international scholars, the book sheds new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in the colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial period. Covering diverse geographical and colonial contexts in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, and focusing on under-researched or little-known films, it demonstrate the complex set of relations between the colonisers and the colonised throughout the region.

Author : Alisa Lebow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850162

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The Cinema of Me by Alisa Lebow Pdf

When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play – the matter and the maker—thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object. Subjectivity finds its filmic expression, not surprisingly, in very personal ways, yet it is nonetheless shaped by and in relation to collective expressions of identity that can transform the cinema of 'me' into the cinema of 'we'. Leading scholars and practitioners of first-person film are brought together in this groundbreaking collection to consider the theoretical, ideological, and aesthetic challenges wrought by this form of filmmaking in its diverse cultural, geographical, and political contexts.

Author : Rajesh James,Sathyaraj Venkatesan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501352683

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India Retold by Rajesh James,Sathyaraj Venkatesan Pdf

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.