Shweta Kishore

Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers (eBook, ePUB)

Practising Independence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Independent documentary is enjoying a resurgence in post-reform India. But in contemporary cinema and media cultures, where 'independent' operates as an industry genre or critical category, how do we understand the significance of this mode of cultural production? 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. Focusing on selected filmmakers, the book establishes how they have reorganised the dominance of industrial media, technology and social relations to develop practices that build upon principles of de-economisation, artisanship and interdependence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474433099
• Artikelnr.: 56246991

Autorenporträt

Shweta Kishore lectures in Film and Media at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, and leads creative research collaborations with contemporary Vietnamese women artists. She gained a PhD from Monash university and is also a documentary practitioner. Her interests include how film studies, gender and social theory intersect in writing, and making and curating independent documentary film as a mode of critical and political practice.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1: Histories and Cultures: Space, Filmmaker, Text, Spectator
2: Method and Meaning
3: Documentary Financing and Production
4: Documentary Circulation and Exhibition
5: People and Documentary
Afterword
Filmography
Works Cited