India Retold by James, Rajesh; Venkatesan, Sathyaraj;

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India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the engagement of independent documentary filmmakers with the postcolonial India and its discourses with a focus on their independent documentary practices. Structured as an interview collection, the book examines how these documentary filmmakers, though not a homogeneous category, practice their independence through their ideology, their filmmaking praxis, their engagement with the everyday and their formal experiments. As a sparsely studied filmmakers, the book through meticulously tracing a wide ranging historical transitions (often marked by communal conflicts and the forces of globalization) not only details the ways in which independent filmmakers in India address the questions of postcolonial nation and its modernist projects but also explores their idiosyncratic views of these filmmakers which are characterized by a definitive departure from the logic of commercial films or state-sponsored documentary films. More important in many ways, these documentary filmmakers expose incongruences in national institutions and programs, embrace the voice of the underrepresented, and thus, imagine an alternative vision of the nation. During the last three years of the execution of the project, thirty Indian documentary filmmakers are interviewed in this book. Given the dearth of quality interviews and little theoretical engagement with documentary as a genre, this book would not only fill in the gap in scholarship but also would serve as an authentic guide for interested readers and for documentary filmmakers alike.

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Acknowledgements

Foreword
Aparna Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Introduction
Rajesh James and Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Decoding Ideology: Nationalism, Communalism and Its Critiques
Anand Patwardhan
Tapan Bose
Amar Kanwar
Rakesh Sharma
Gopal Menon
Nakul Singh Sawhney
Kasturi Basu

The Subversive Eye: Gender and Sexual Identities
Deepa Dhanraj
Madhusree Dutta
Saba Dewan
Paromita Vohra
Rahul Roy
Surabhi Sharma
Nishtha Jain
Sridhar Rangayan

Radical Inequality: Casting the Caste
Amudhan R.P.
Divya Bharathi

""Be True to the Earth"": Mapping the Post-Natural India
Sanjay Kak
Meghnath
Shriprakash
Biju Toppo

Thinking through Regions: Nation and its Discontents
Iffat Fatima
R.V. Ramani
Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Anjali Monteiro/K.P. Jayasankar
Haobam Paban Kumar
Bilal A. Jan
Stanzin Dorjai Gya
Raja Shabir Khan
Mukul Haloi

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