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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Notes on Contributors viii
- List of Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction Resistance in the digitised present 1
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Part I: Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form
- 1. The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator 25
- 2 ‘Canine spaces’: Kolkata’s slum dogs 47
- 3 ‘Threadbearing’: Journeys with our subjects and our documentary narratives 66
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Part II: Representation of lived experienc
- 4. Personal is political: Documentary and intimacy 81
- 5 Making films from and about the margins 92
- 6 Against all odds: A filmmaker’s quest to make films in Northeast India 100
- 7 Experiencing and representing conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri filmmaker 109
- 8 Documentary and oppositional Bahujan agency 114
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Part III: Resistance in practice
- 9. Curating documentary film and video art in a museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience 125
- 10 Working with time: Editing the documentary 148
- 11 Cultural documentary: Dialogues between aesthetics and society 165
- 12 The politics of image-making 174
- 13 Two starting points: The sonic in my films 182
- 14 Conversations, confusions, confessions: Living with and working in cinema 189
- 15 About critique: Indian media and documentary cinema 197
- Epilogue On building documentary cultures of resistance 211
- Films Cited 223
- Index 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vii
- Notes on Contributors viii
- List of Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction Resistance in the digitised present 1
-
Part I: Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form
- 1. The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator 25
- 2 ‘Canine spaces’: Kolkata’s slum dogs 47
- 3 ‘Threadbearing’: Journeys with our subjects and our documentary narratives 66
-
Part II: Representation of lived experienc
- 4. Personal is political: Documentary and intimacy 81
- 5 Making films from and about the margins 92
- 6 Against all odds: A filmmaker’s quest to make films in Northeast India 100
- 7 Experiencing and representing conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri filmmaker 109
- 8 Documentary and oppositional Bahujan agency 114
-
Part III: Resistance in practice
- 9. Curating documentary film and video art in a museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience 125
- 10 Working with time: Editing the documentary 148
- 11 Cultural documentary: Dialogues between aesthetics and society 165
- 12 The politics of image-making 174
- 13 Two starting points: The sonic in my films 182
- 14 Conversations, confusions, confessions: Living with and working in cinema 189
- 15 About critique: Indian media and documentary cinema 197
- Epilogue On building documentary cultures of resistance 211
- Films Cited 223
- Index 225