Where Histories Reside

India As Filmed Space

Priya Jaikumar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0475-2 (ISBN)

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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 “spatial” 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 “what is cinema?” must account for an aesthetics and politics of space.

Priya Jaikumar is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California and author of Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India, also published by Duke University Press.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2019
Zusatzinfo	80 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4780-0475-4 / 1478004754
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0475-2 / 9781478004752
Zustand	Neuware