Documentary Film in India: An Anthropological History

by Giulia Battaglia

This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. The book navigates different historical moments of the growth of documentary filmmaking in India from the colonial period to the present day. In the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367891565
• ISBN13: 9780367891565
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages