The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema
Jayjit Sarkar editor Anik Sarkar editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:22nd Apr '25
£230.00
This title is due to be published on 22nd April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This handbook offers a critical introduction to Indian Indie Cinema exploring its subversion of dominant ideas, aesthetics and narratives, its inclusion of marginal and alternative experiences and ideologies, its relationship with audiences and its defiance of norms followed by commercial Bollywood cinema.
It takes a critical look at independent and alternative films in India that cover a wide range of genres, regions, textual forms and languages. These films may be regional, experimental in style, or feature innovative and timely sociopolitical interventions. The handbook contextualizes this cinema historically and addresses the key issues concerning its significance. A definitive guide to independent Indian films, this volume provides a critical understanding of the many experimentations undertaken by alternative voices and filmmakers in India; offers new conceptual engagements that widens perspectives on ‘minor’ and regional cinema; and covers a wide range of films while touching upon current and new filmmaking trends, emerging cinematic styles, film production and key filmmakers.
This analyses of the indie film industry and films in India is an essential read for students and researcher of media and film studies, film studies, cultural studies, world cinema, contemporary cinema, besides being of interest to film buffs.
‘A vibrant collection, A Handbook of Indie and Alternative Indian Cinemas will prompt and inform multifaceted inquiry into the filmic inventions and societal fabulations which are catalyzed by, and steadfastly emerging from, the regional, cultural, and linguistic peripheries of India today.
Co-editors Anik Sarkar and Jayjit Sarkar have made a thoughtful selection of chapters, many of which discuss indies that circulate primarily in festivals and independent theaters. By gathering the chapters loosely in clusters such as “Nation and Narration,” “Gender and Sexuality,” “Making and Unmaking”, and “Memory and Desire,” the editors illuminate the flexibility and versatility of the indie as a dynamic creative and critical process.
The Handbook is an invaluable resource that will be consulted time and again by scholars, critics, and a broad readership engaging with Indian, global South, and world cinemas in the plural.’
—Jeffner Allen, State University of New York, USA
ISBN: 9781032225005
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384 pages