Documentary Film in India: An Anthropological History

ISBN-13: 9780367891565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str.

Giulia Battaglia

Opis

Grounded in anthropological fieldwork and archival research and adopting Foucault’s concept of ‘effective history’, it searches for points of origin that creates ruptures and deviations taking distance from conventional ways of writing film histories. Rather than presenting a univocal set of arguments and conclusions about changes or new developmen

Spis treści

Introduction

1. History’s Fragments

2. Around the Films Division

3. The Growth of Independent Practices

4. The Advent of Video Technology

5. Articulation of Performance and Performativity

6. Film Festivals, Small Media and Online Networks

7. Sites of Cultural Activism

8. Open-ended Archives: Film, Art and Anthropology

References

O autorze

Giulia Battaglia is a researcher in anthropology of visual/art/media practices specialised in documentary film in India. Her work is interdisciplinary and draws from a range of academic fields, including visual/media anthropology, documentary studies, visual and material cultures, art and anthropology, Indian cinema, cultural studies and film history. After receiving a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, she has worked as a lecturer and researcher in various departments of anthropology, media, arts and social science as well as in cultural institutions in England and in France. At present, she lives and works in Paris in the field of anthropology, arts and media, being part of the laboratoire de recherche IRMECCEN, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3) and the laboratoire de recherche LAIOS/IIAC, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). For the latter, she is also responsible for a funded international project between art and social science, called ‘L’invention des formes de représentation à l’ère de la mondialisation’.