| Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation Contributor(s): Pandian, Anand (Author) |
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ISBN: 082235957X ISBN-13: 9780822359579 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $102.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2015017940 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 360 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |