Kishore, Shweta  Ray, Kunal <br/><br/>
Resistance in Indian documentary film: aesthetics, culture and practice 

 - United Kingdom --   Edinburgh University Press --   2024 
 - xiv, 233p. 
<br/><br/> *Cover<br/><br/>*Half Title<br/><br/>*Series Page<br/><br/>*Title Page<br/><br/>*Copyright<br/><br/>*Contents<br/><br/>*List of Figures<br/><br/>*Notes on Contributors<br/><br/>*List of Abbreviations<br/><br/>*Introduction: Resistance in the digitised present<br/><br/>*Part I Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form<br/><br/>1. The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator<br/><br/>2. 'Canine spaces': Kolkata's slum dogs<br/><br/>3. 'Threadbearing': Journeys with our subjects and our documentary narratives<br/><br/>*Part II Representation of lived experience<br/><br/>4. Personal is political: Documentary and intimacy 5. Making films from and about the margins<br/><br/>6. Against all odds: A filmmaker's quest to make films in Northeast India<br/><br/>7. Experiencing and representing conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri filmmaker<br/><br/>8. Documentary and oppositional Bahujan agency<br/><br/><br/>*Part III Resistance in practice<br/><br/>9. Curating documentary film and video art in a museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience<br/><br/>10. Working with time: Editing the documentary<br/><br/>11. Cultural documentary: Dialogues between aesthetics and society<br/><br/>12. The politics of image-making<br/><br/>13. Two starting points: The sonic in my films 14. Conversations, confusions, confessions: Living with and working in cinema<br/><br/>15. About critique: Indian media and documentary cinema<br/><br/>*Epilogue: On building documentary cultures of resistance<br/><br/>*Films Cited<br/><br/>*Index<br/> 
<br/><br/> Examines modes of resistance within contemporary Indian documentary culture and films. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781399525664 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criticism<br/>Performing arts<br/>Documentary films <br/>India <br/>History <br/>Politics in motion pictures
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>070.18 KIS/R