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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Practising Independence

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), 209 pp.

Contains filmography pp. 169-172, bibliogr. pp. 173-190, index

ISBN 978-1-4744-3308-2 (ebook); 978-1-4744-3306-8 (print)

"Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system." (Publisher description)
Introduction, 1
1 Histories and Cultures: Space, Filmmaker, Text, Spectator, 21
2 Method and Meaning, 47
3 Financing and Production, 77
4 Circulation and Exhibition, 105
5 People and Documentary, 133
Afterword, 162