Table of Contents

pp v-vi

List of Figures

pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors

pp viii-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Resistance in the digitised present

pp 1-24

Part I - Critical perspectives on documentary aesthetics and form

pp 25-26

1 - The corporeality of homelessness in Cities of Sleep: Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator

pp 27-46

2 - ‘Canine spaces’: Kolkata’s slum dogs

pp 47-65

3 - ‘Threadbearing’: Journeys with our subjects and our documentary narratives

pp 66-80

Part II - Representation of lived experience

pp 81-82

4 - Personal is political: Documentary and intimacy

pp 83-91

5 - Making films from and about the margins

pp 92-99

6 - Against all odds: A filmmaker’s quest to make films in Northeast India

pp 100-108

7 - Experiencing and representing conflict: Encounters of a Kashmiri filmmaker

pp 109-113

8 - Documentary and oppositional Bahujan agency

pp 114-124

Part III - Resistance in practice

pp 125-126

9 - Curating documentary film and video art in a museum: Reflections from Loss and Transience

pp 127-147

10 - Working with time: Editing the documentary

pp 148-164

11 - Cultural documentary: Dialogues between aesthetics and society

pp 165-173

12 - The politics of image-making

pp 174-181

13 - Two starting points: The sonic in my films

pp 182-188

14 - Conversations, confusions, confessions: Living with and working in cinema

pp 189-196

15 - About critique: Indian media and documentary cinema

pp 197-210

Epilogue: On building documentary cultures of resistance

pp 211-222

Films Cited

pp 223-224

Index

pp 225-233