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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Rajesh James (Sacred Heart College, India) , Sathyaraj Venkatesan (National Institute of Technology, Tirchy, India)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781501352676ISBN 10: 1501352679 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 29 July 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Aparna Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Introduction Rajesh James and Sathyaraj Venkatesan Decoding Ideology: Nationalism, Communalism and Its Critiques Anand Patwardhan Tapan Bose Amar Kanwar Rakesh Sharma Gopal Menon Nakul Singh Sawhney Kasturi Basu The Subversive Eye: Gender and Sexual Identities Deepa Dhanraj Madhusree Dutta Saba Dewan Paromita Vohra Rahul Roy Surabhi Sharma Nishtha Jain Sridhar Rangayan Radical Inequality: Casting the Caste Amudhan R.P. Divya Bharathi “Be True to the Earth”: Mapping the Post-Natural India Sanjay Kak Meghnath Shriprakash Biju Toppo Thinking through Regions: Nation and its Discontents Iffat Fatima R.V. Ramani Pankaj Rishi Kumar Anjali Monteiro/K.P. Jayasankar Haobam Paban Kumar Bilal A. Jan Stanzin Dorjai Gya Raja Shabir Khan Mukul Haloi Reading List IndexReviewsIndia Retold more than lives up to its title. The interviews with thirty politically committed independent filmmakers tell the inspiring history of an alternative filmmaking practice, detached from institutional funding and benefitting, over the years, from increasingly de-professionalised technologies. The films discussed cover a disturbing and equally alternative history of India, stretching from the 1970s’ Emergency years to 2020. The filmmakers’ stories make fascinating and compelling reading. * Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film Studies, University of London, UK * An exciting and original intervention in the field of South Asian film studies that is currently fixated on Bollywood and its global reach. Through interviews with some extraordinary and paradigm shifting independent filmmakers, the reader is given a sense of a landscape that resists cliché, social conservatism, and the pressures of political conformity. It gives voice to those that speak courageously for the suppressed minorities of India. * Dilip Menon, Professor of History and Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa * This is an exciting, comprehensive and pathbreaking compendium focusing fully on the independent documentary sector in Indian cinema. The formidable collection of in-depth interviews with a diverse and eminent range of filmmakers is accompanied by an uninhibited and candid approach to appraising state-sanctioned ethno-religious turbulence, caste-based discrimination, queer identities and the rising tide of right-wing populist politics in India - facets that make this book both timely and essential. * Ashvin Devasundaram, Senior Lecturer in World Cinema, Queen Mary University of London, UK * India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an in-depth approach to independent filmmaking in India. With historical and sociopolitical analysis, the book gives us an overview not only about filmmaking, but India's culture of the last century. I could highlight the gender and sexuality part of the book that really gives a new perspective to the matter. A must read for the filmmaker and researcher but also for the audience that wants to immerse in this sub continent's hidden history. * Gina Petropoulou, Artistic Director, Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival * India Retold more than lives up to its title. The interviews with thirty politically committed independent filmmakers tell the inspiring history of an alternative filmmaking practice, detached from institutional funding and benefitting, over the years, from increasingly de-professionalised technologies. The films discussed cover a disturbing and equally alternative history of India, stretching from the 1970s' Emergency years to 2020. The filmmakers' stories make fascinating and compelling reading. * Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film Studies, University of London, UK * An exciting and original intervention in the field of South Asian film studies that is currently fixated on Bollywood and its global reach. Through interviews with some extraordinary and paradigm shifting independent filmmakers, the reader is given a sense of a landscape that resists cliche, social conservatism, and the pressures of political conformity. It gives voice to those that speak courageously for the suppressed minorities of India. * Dilip Menon, Professor of History and Mellon Chair in Indian Studies, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa * This is an exciting, comprehensive and pathbreaking compendium focusing fully on the independent documentary sector in Indian cinema. The formidable collection of in-depth interviews with a diverse and eminent range of filmmakers is accompanied by an uninhibited and candid approach to appraising state-sanctioned ethno-religious turbulence, caste-based discrimination, queer identities and the rising tide of right-wing populist politics in India - facets that make this book both timely and essential. * Ashvin Devasundaram, Senior Lecturer in World Cinema, Queen Mary University of London, UK * India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an in-depth approach to independent filmmaking in India. With historical and sociopolitical analysis, the book gives us an overview not only about filmmaking, but India's culture of the last century. I could highlight the gender and sexuality part of the book that really gives a new perspective to the matter. A must read for the filmmaker and researcher but also for the audience that wants to immerse in this sub continent's hidden history. * Gina Petropoulou, Artistic Director, Peloponnisos International Documentary Festival * Author InformationRajesh James is an independent documentary filmmaker and an Assistant Professor of English at Sacred Heart College, Kochi, India. His major documentary films include In Thunder, Lightning and Rain (2019) Naked Wheels (2017) and Zebra Lines (2014). Shaped by the conventions of cinema verite and ethnography, his key thematic concerns are gender, caste and, subalternity as refracted through the prism of labour. He was awarded Riyad Wadia Award for the Best Emerging Filmmaker, India in 2017. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. He is the author of nine books and over hundred research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and cultural studies disciplines. He is most recently co-editor of Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation (Singapore: Springer, 2022). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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