Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. List of Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction Resistance in the digitised present 1
7. Part I: Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form
8. 1. The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator 25
9. 2 ‘Canine spaces’: Kolkata’s slum dogs 47
10. 3 ‘Threadbearing’: Journeys with our subjects and our documentary narratives 66
11. Part II: Representation of lived experienc
12. 4. Personal is political: Documentary and intimacy 81
13. 5 Making films from and about the margins 92
14. 6 Against all odds: A filmmaker’s quest to make films in Northeast India 100
15. 7 Experiencing and representing conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri filmmaker 109
16. 8 Documentary and oppositional Bahujan agency 114
17. Part III: Resistance in practice
18. 9. Curating documentary film and video art in a museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience 125
19. 10 Working with time: Editing the documentary 148
20. 11 Cultural documentary: Dialogues between aesthetics and society 165
21. 12 The politics of image-making 174
22. 13 Two starting points: The sonic in my films 182
23. 14 Conversations, confusions, confessions: Living with and working in cinema 189
24. 15 About critique: Indian media and documentary cinema 197
25. Epilogue On building documentary cultures of resistance 211
26. Films Cited 223
27. Index 225