A Fly in the Curry: Independent Documentary Film in India

Author: K P Jayasankar

Brand: Aakar Books

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 273

Release Date: 01-01-2023

model number: 11989

Part Number: 11989

Details: This is an extraordinary book. It will set new standards for bringing together place, form and context in cinema studies. It accomplishes what few studies of a modern visual genre even attempt, much less achieve. This book looks at how independent Indian documentary film reworks the relationship between film-makers, their narratives, their subjects and their audience, challenging the dominant idea of documentary as a discourse of the real. Based on close textual analysis, conversations with film-makers and drawing on Breitrose’s cinema-verite film-maker as a ‘fly in the soup’, this work explores the place of documentary within the Indian public sphere.

EAN: 9789350028469

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English