Jaikumar Priya Jaikumar

Where Histories Reside (eBook, PDF)

India as Filmed Space

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Produktbeschreibung

In Where Histories Reside Priya Jaikumar examines eight decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema. In this bold "e;spatial"e; film historiography, Jaikumar outlines factors that shape India's filmed space, from state bureaucracies and commercial infrastructures to aesthetic styles and neoliberal policies. Whether discussing how educational shorts from Britain and India transform natural landscapes into instructional lessons or how Jean Renoir's The River (1951) presents a universal human condition through the particularities of place, Jaikumar demonstrates that the history of filming a location has always been a history of competing assumptions, experiences, practices, and representational regimes. In so doing, she reveals that addressing the persistent question of "e;what is cinema?"e; must account for an aesthetics and politics of space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478005599
• Artikelnr.: 66282586

Autorenporträt

Priya Jaikumar

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: Filmed Space  1
Part I. Rationalized Spaces
1. Disciplinary: Indian Towns in British Geography Classrooms  35
2. Regulatory: The State in Films Division's Himalayan Documentaries  75
Part II. Affective Spaces
3. Sublime: Immanence and Transcendence in Jean Renoir's India  125
4. Residual: Lucknow and the Haveli as Cinematic Topoi  181
Part III. Commodified Spaces
5. Global: From Bollywood Locations to Film Stock Rations  233
Conclusion: Cinema and Historiographies of Space  287
Appendix  311
Notes  313
Bibliography  355
Index  389