Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics

ISBN-13: 9781350029880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 166 str.

Paolo Favero

Opis

Image-Making-India explores the evolving meaning of images in a digital landscape from the vantage point of contemporary India. This volume will be of particular interest to scholars of visual and digital anthropology and cultures as well as South Asian studies.

Spis treści

Ch 1 In uncompleted circles, spirals and swirls: An introduction, Ch 2 The present world of images: A theoretical background, Ch 3 Sharpening ideas on the whetting stone: Independent documentary practices, resistance and revolution, Ch 4 The ghost of an image: On photographs, truth and colonial violence, Ch 5 The uncanny destiny of ‘raw’ footage: The politics of imagemaking from analogic to digital, from filmmaking to archiving, Ch 6 Conclusions

O autorze

Paolo S.H. Favero is Associate Professor of Film Studies and Visual Culture at the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Centre (ViDi), University of Antwerp, Belgium.