Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers

Independence in Practice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Av Shweta Kishore, RMIT University) Kishore, Shweta (Lecturer in Screen and Media

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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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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-02
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt452 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474433068

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Shweta Kishore lectures in Screen and Media at RMIT University, Australia. She is the author of Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Independence in Practice and has published widely on Indian documentary, documentary ethics, feminist film, and activist film festivals. Shweta is a documentary practitioner and has curated documentary and artist cinema programmes for the Kochi Muziris Biennale (India), The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre (Vietnam), and the Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia).

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Histories and Cultures: Space, Filmmaker, Text, SpectatorPublic Space and Democratic Instruments An Involved FilmmakerText, Representation and Reflexivity Spectator and Horizontal Communication 2. Method and MeaningFilmmakers, Histories, Concerns, Aesthetics Artisanal ProductionDocumentary as Signifying Practice 3. Documentary Financing and ProductionNGOS and Useful MediaInstitutionally Managed PracticeSelf-Managed PracticeA Tactics of Practice; Decapitalisation and De-economisation4. Documentary Circulation and Exhibition The Regulated Public DomainFrom Information to EmotionBetween Participant and AudienceA Tactics of Circulation: An Involved Publics and Decentering Copyright 5. People and Documentary The Represented and Institutional SubjectArtist, Meanings, ObligationSpeaking with the SubjectIndependent: Interdependent and Negotiated Consent PracticeAfterwordFilmographyWorks Cited

A fine contribution to our understanding of social-issue and activist documentary cinema and its lively incarnation in India since 1987. Rigorous and resourceful, Kishore’s labour of love ranges from the work of five exemplary artists to their theoretical and political context. With the growing circulation of independent Indian nonfiction voices and images, practising independence becomes increasingly urgent.