Reel world : an anthropology of creation / Anand Pandian ; with a foreword by Walter Murch.
By: Pandian, Anand [author.].
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015Description: xv, 339p. illustrations.ISBN: 9780822359579 (hardcover : acidfree paper).Subject(s): Motion picture industry -- India -- Tamil Nadu | Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- India -- Tamil Nadu | Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- India -- Tamil NaduDDC classification: 791.43095482| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-327) and index.
Reel world -- Dreams -- Hope -- Space -- Art -- Love -- Desire -- Light -- Color -- Time -- Imagination -- Pleasure -- Sound -- Voice -- Rhythm -- Speed -- Wonder -- Fate -- An anthropology of creation.
Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and craftsmen in the south Indian movie studios of "Kollywood," Anand Pandian examines how ordinary moments become elements of a cinematic world. With inventive, experimental, and sometimes comical zeal, Pandian pursues the sensory richness of cinematic experience and the adventure of a writing true to these sensations. Thinking with the visceral power of sound and image, his stories also broach deeply philosophical themes such as desire, time, wonder, and imagination. In a spirit devoted to the turbulence and uncertainty of genesis, Reel World brings into focus an ecology of creative process: the many forces, feelings, beings, and things that infuse human endeavors with transformative potential.
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