Documentary Films in India Critical Aesthetics at Work
This book introduces the diverse practices of three non-canonical practitioners: David MacDougall, Desire Machine Collective and Kumar Shahani. It offers analysis of their documentary methods and aesthetics, exploring how their oeuvres constitute a critic
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Documentary Films in India Critical Aesthetics at Work Aparna Sharma Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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dedicated to students, practitioners and all who believe that the documentary impulse exceeds the bounds of nations
Contents List of Figures
viii
Preface
x
Acknowledgements
xii
Introduction
1
Part I
27
1 Constructing the Self, Constructing Others: David MacDougall’s Observational Films on Institutions for Children in India
29
2 New Boys at the Doon School
56
3 Gandhi’s Children
78
Part II
105
4 An Arrested Eye: Trauma and Becoming in Desire Machine Collective’s Documentary Installations
107
5 Passage
134
6 Residue
150
Part III
175
7 A Turn Towards the Classical: the Documentaries of Kumar Shahani
177
8 The Bamboo Flute
212
Epilogue
237
Notes
243
Bibliography
256
Index
264
vii
List of Figures 1.1
Morning Assembly at the Doon School
37
1.2
The physically dominated aesthetic of the Doon School
48
2.1
A class of new boys at the Doon School
58
2.2
Abhishek Shukla estimates what the camera is recording
67
2.3
Abhishek Shukla admitted
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