TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kishore, Shweta 
AU  - Ray, Kunal
TI  - Resistance in Indian documentary film: aesthetics, culture and practice
SN  - 9781399525664
U1  - 070.18 KIS/R 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - United Kingdom -- 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press -- 
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Documentary films
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - Politics in motion pictures
N1  - *Cover

*Half Title

*Series Page

*Title Page

*Copyright

*Contents

*List of Figures

*Notes on Contributors

*List of Abbreviations

*Introduction: Resistance in the digitised present

*Part I Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form

1. The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator

2. 'Canine spaces': Kolkata's slum dogs

3. 'Threadbearing': Journeys with our subjects and our documentary narratives

*Part II Representation of lived experience

4. Personal is political: Documentary and intimacy 5. Making films from and about the margins

6. Against all odds: A filmmaker's quest to make films in Northeast India

7. Experiencing and representing conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri filmmaker

8. Documentary and oppositional Bahujan agency


*Part III Resistance in practice

9. Curating documentary film and video art in a museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience

10. Working with time: Editing the documentary

11. Cultural documentary: Dialogues between aesthetics and society

12. The politics of image-making

13. Two starting points: The sonic in my films 14. Conversations, confusions, confessions: Living with and working in cinema

15. About critique: Indian media and documentary cinema

*Epilogue: On building documentary cultures of resistance

*Films Cited

*Index

N2  - Examines modes of resistance within contemporary Indian documentary culture and films
ER  -