The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Sarkar, Jayjit; Sarkar, Anik

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040348628
• Artikelnr.: 73783574

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Foreword 2. Introduction 3. Interface between Forest and City:
Ecofeminist Evaluation of Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri (1970) 4. Two
Women and a Film Crew: Female Relational Dynamics and Double Standards of
Parallel Cinema in Rituporno Ghosh's Bariwali (2000) 5. Dancing Rain and
Marigolden Marriages: Monsoon Wedding (2001) Twenty Years On 6. Wearing the
Motley in Rituparno Ghosh's Lear (2007) 7. Manorama Six Feet Under (2007):
Understanding the making of a star through the culture of independent
cinema 8. Connection and Separation: Art as a Life and Life as an Art in
Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat (2010) 9. The Ghat of the Only World: Trauma,
Dignity, Marginalisation and the City in Onir's I Am (2010) 10. Against
Commodification of Films in South Asian (Indian) 'Media-Scape': A Reading
of Q's Gandu (2010) 11. "Exotic, Intense, Explosive, Erotic": Gandu (2010)
and the Flesh of Cinema 12. A brief inquiry into the ontology of the voyeur
in Banerjee's Love, Sex and Dhoka (2010) 13. Beyond the Conventional
binary: Rituparno Ghosh's Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish (2012) 14. Ankhon
Dekhi (2013): A Curious Case of Objectivity 15. The Lunchbox (2013): A
narrative about loneliness and emotional wiltedness 16. Fandry (2013): An
act of resistance and assertion 17. Intersectionality and Gender
Performativity in Margarita with a Straw (2014) 18. Aligarh (2015): New
Cartographies of (Anti)Intimacies in Indian Cinema 19. Masaan (2015): A
Cathartic Journey of Reconciliation with Destiny 20. Vituperating the
Female Body and Violence in a F-rated Indie Movie Parched (2015) 21. The
Male Malady: Confined Spaces and Social Exclusion in A Death in the Gunj
(2016) 22. Village Rockstars (2017): Micronarratives of the Nation 23.
Angamaly Diaries (2017): Intersectionality and Politics of Violence and
Food 24. A camera into the human life: Reading the Ethos of Angamaly
Diaries (2017) 25. "Can the Transgender Speak?": A Critical Analysis of
Kaushik Ganguly's Nagarkirtan (2017) 26. Silence and Chaos in Nishil
Sheth's Bhasmasur (2017) 27. The Poetics, Politics and Patriarchies of
Bulbul Can Sing (2018) 28. On Mixing Memory and Desire: Reading Sengupta's
Jonaki (2018) as a Chronotope of Nostalgia 29. Striking a fine balance:
Duty, Dreams and being true to self in Rohena Gera' Sir (2018) 30. The
Organs of Darkness: Horror and Desire in Rahi Anil Barve and Adesh Prasad's
Tumbbad (2018) 31. The Fiasco at Funeral: An Insight on the Theme of Death
in Pellissery's Ee.Maa.Yau (2018) 32. "When the Reel Represents the Real":
Mapping Resistance and Agency against the Post-truth Regime in Anand
Patwardhan's Vivek (2018) 33. Widow of Silence (2018) and its Action in
Silence 34. Bhaskar Hazarika's Aamis (2019): A Tale of Visceral Journey and
Vorarephilia 35. Unruliness of Desire and Consumption in Bhaskar Hazarika's
Aamis (2019) 36. Food and politics of othering of Northeastern experiences
in Nicholas Kharkongor's Axone (2019) 37. Cargo (2019): Life after Death in
Indian Space 38. Gamak Ghar (2019): A Common Story Uncommonly Told 39.
Gamak Ghar (2019): The House that Lived in Memory 40. Jallikattu (2019) and
the Demise of Multi-species Sociality 41. Eeb Allay Ooo! (2019): A new zoo
story 42. Stewing Rebellion in The Great Indian Kitchen (2021)