The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema
Sous la direction de Jayjit Sarkar et Anik Sarkar
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Description de l'ouvrage:
This handbook offers a critical introduction to Indian Indie cinema, exploring its subversion of dominant ideas, aesthetics and narratives; its inclusion of marginal and alternative experiences and ideologies; its relationship with audiences; and its defiance of norms followed by commercial Bollywood cinema.
It takes a critical look at independent and alternative films in India that cover a wide range of genres, regions, textual forms and languages. These films may be regional, experimental in style or feature innovative and timely sociopolitical interventions. The handbook contextualises this cinema historically and addresses the key issues concerning its significance. A definitive guide to independent Indian films, this volume provides acritical understanding of the many experimentations undertaken by alternative voices and filmmakers in India; offers new conceptual engagements that widen perspectives on “minor” and regional cinema; and covers a wide range of films while touching upon current and new filmmaking trends, emerging cinematic styles, film production and key filmmakers.
These analyses of the Indie film industry and films in India are an essential read for students and researchers of media and film studies, film studies, cultural studies, world cinema and contemporary cinema, besides being of interest to film buffs.
À propos des auteurs :
Jayjit Sarkar is assistant professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of the monograph Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (2019) and the editor-contributor of Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration (2023).Anik Sarkar is assistant professor of English at SRM University Sikkim. His research areas and interests include philosophy of technology, surveillance, film studies and videogames. His recent work is The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2024).
Revue de Presse:
‘A vibrant collection, The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema will prompt and inform multifaceted inquiry into the filmic inventions and societal fabulations which are catalyzed by, and steadfastly emerging from, the regional, cultural, and linguistic peripheries of India today.
Co-editors Anik Sarkar and Jayjit Sarkar have made a thoughtful selection of chapters, many of which discuss indies that circulate primarily in festivals and independent theaters. By gathering the chapters loosely in clusters such as "Nation and Narration," "Gender and Sexuality," "Making and Unmaking", and "Memory and Desire," the editors illuminate the flexibility and versatility of the indie as a dynamic creative and critical process.
The Handbook is an invaluable resource that will be consulted time and again by scholars, critics, and a broad readership engaging with Indian, global South, and world cinemas in the plural.’
―Jeffner Allen, State University of New York, USA
> Des mêmes auteurs :
The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2024)
Dir. Anik Sarkar et Jayjit Sarkar
Sujet : Director > Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood (2020)
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A Fly in the Curry (2016)
Independent Documentary Film in India
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