Kasturi kasturi.basu@gmail.com [docuwallahs2]
2018-01-25 05:24:18 UTC
Dear friends,
Happy to share that our new book on independent documentary/political
cinema and its audience in India - something we have been working on over
the last three years - is now out.
It's available for purchase on Flipkart:
https://www.flipkart.com/toward-s-people-s-cinema-independent-documentary-its-audience-india/p/itmffjycvashj9rc?pid=9789383968299
*Contents:*
Towards a People's Cinema: An Introduction
*- Kasturi Basu & Dwaipayan Banerjee*
*I. HISTORY*
Every Picture Has A History
*- Sanjay Kak*
From the Raj to the Emergency:
A Brief History of the "Official" Documentary in India
*- Biren Das Sharma*
Autobiography of a Cinephile:
or the Accidental Birth of a Filmmaker
*- Uma Chakravarti*
*II. PRACTICE*
My Films, My Politics
*- Tapan Bose*
Filming the Open Veins of India
*- in conversation with Anand Patwardhan*
To the People, Their Songs I Bring
*- in conversation with Ranjan Palit*
My Journey with Challenges of Representation
*- Deepa Dhanraj*
*III. COLLECTIVES*
Foot Soldiers of Cinema:
The Journey of Pedestrian Pictures
*- Deepu*
When Filmmakers Became a Community
*- Surabhi Sharma*
Whose Development from the Barrel of the Gun?
*- in conversation with Meghnath*
Voices from Gorakhpur
*- Manoj Kumar Singh*
Cinema of Resistance:
Eleven Years with People's Support
*- Sanjay Joshi*
Films of Freedom:
New Documentary Practice in Odisha
*- in conversation with Subrat Kumar Sahu*
Repression Diary:
Notes on Camera and People's Struggle
*- Surya Shankar Dash*
Moving with Films:
People's Film Collective in West Bengal
*- Kasturi Basu and Dwaipayan Banerjee*
Collectivising Cinema:
The Story of Ektara
*- Rinchin and Maheen for Ektara Collective*
Jan Cinema in Mathura
*- Pulkit Phillip and Mohammad Gani*
*IV. LEGACY*
The Life and Times of Chitra Chetana
*- Tapan Sen*
The Guerilla Film - Underground and in Exile:
A Critique and a Case Study of 'Waves of Revolution'
*- reprint of Anand Patwardhan's Masters' thesis,with a new Foreword by
Anand Patwardhan*
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Index of Cited Films
*pp viii+412, includes illustrations, royal 9.5 x 6.25 in.,*
*ISBN 978-93-83968-29-9*
*Paperback Rs575 (India) $30 (Elsewhere). Prices are inclusive of
shipping.*
For more listing details, please check the publishers' website:
http://www.threeessays.com/books/towards-a-people%E2%80%99s-cinema/
It was available at the Delhi World Book Fair, will be available at the
Kolkata International Book Fair (in stalls of Aakar Books, LeftWord Books
and Setu Prakashani, as well as at the Little Magazine pavilion, with
People's Film Collective.) To get a copy in Kolkata, one may call People's
Film Collective at +91-9163736863
Distribution information: Available at major bookstores and with IPD
Alternatives, 44 Shahpur Jatt, Ground Floor, New Delhi 110049 Tel. +91 11
26492040 <011%202649%202040>/26497895. e-mail ***@gmail.com
You could also order directly from www.threeessays.com
Hope you find it engaging. Would love to hear from you!
Best,
Kasturi & Dwaipayan
*PS: Apologies for cross-posting. Please ignore if you got this message
already.*
â
New title from Three Essays
Available from January 6, 2018
*Towards a Peopleâs Cinema*
*Independent Documentary and its Audience in India*
Edited by* Kasturi Basu and Dwaipayan Banerjee*
*Towards a Peopleâs Cinema* hopes to open up more scope for a dialectical
exchange between practitioners, audiences, subjects and activists of
independent documentary cinema, probing the latter as a medium with the
radical potential of challenging and disrupting the status quo.
This collection of essays and interviews aims to enquire, in the
post-colonial Indian context, if cinema can be a democratised peopleâs
medium and a tool for a progressive transformation of the society. It
starts building a repository, perhaps for the first time, of first-person
experiences of collectives and individual film practitioners in India, who
have worked with independent documentary cinema, with a similar enquiry. It
aims to chronicle how politically conscious contemporary film collectives
are re-fashioning the erstwhile notion of film societies as spaces not just
for critical film appreciation but also for broader socio-political
engagement and action.
The independent political documentary in India is a little over 40 years
old. It can be argued that in terms of both content and form, it is a far
more exciting and vibrant place than its fiction counterpart. The horrors
of neoliberal dystopia are perhaps best captured raw and candid in the
documentary than in fictionalised representations of unfurling life.
However, little has been written about the independent documentary in
India, which seriously impairs a critical engagement with it. This book
wishes to contribute to the discourse, by placing the Indian documentary
into historical and material context, from which its present depth and
spread have emerged.
*Contributors*: Anand Patwardhan, Biren Das Sharma, Deepa Dhanraj , Depu,
Dwaipayan Banerjee, Ektara Collective, Kasturi Basu, Manoj Kumar Singh,
Meghnath, Mohammad Gani, Pulkit Phillip, Ranjan Palit, Sanjay Joshi, Sanjay
Kak, Subrat Kumar Sahu, Surabhi Sharma, Surya Shankar Dash, Tapan Bose,
Tapan Sen, Uma Chakravarti
*About the editors*:
*Kasturi Basu* is a social activist, science researcher, occasional writer
and editor based in Kolkata. She is currently directing a documentary,
*S.D.* [2018], on Saroj Dutta, martyred communist poet, journalist and
ideologue of the Naxalbari movement.
*Dwaipayan Banerjee* is a social activist, labour history and film
researcher and independent editor based in Kolkata. He has been a trade
union activist and political commentator.
Both are founder members of the Peopleâs Film Collective, and editors
of *Pratirodher
Cinema*, a magazine on cinema and counterculture.
pp viii+412, includes illustrations, royal 9.5 x 6.25 in.,
ISBN 978-93-83968-29-9
Paperback Rs575 (India) $30 (Elsewhere). Prices are inclusive of
shipping.
Available at major bookstores and with IPD Alternatives, 44 Shahpur Jatt,
Ground Floor, New Delhi 110049 Tel. +91 11 26492040
<011%202649%202040>/26497895.
e-mail ***@gmail.com
You could also order directly from www.threeessays.com
Happy to share that our new book on independent documentary/political
cinema and its audience in India - something we have been working on over
the last three years - is now out.
It's available for purchase on Flipkart:
https://www.flipkart.com/toward-s-people-s-cinema-independent-documentary-its-audience-india/p/itmffjycvashj9rc?pid=9789383968299
*Contents:*
Towards a People's Cinema: An Introduction
*- Kasturi Basu & Dwaipayan Banerjee*
*I. HISTORY*
Every Picture Has A History
*- Sanjay Kak*
From the Raj to the Emergency:
A Brief History of the "Official" Documentary in India
*- Biren Das Sharma*
Autobiography of a Cinephile:
or the Accidental Birth of a Filmmaker
*- Uma Chakravarti*
*II. PRACTICE*
My Films, My Politics
*- Tapan Bose*
Filming the Open Veins of India
*- in conversation with Anand Patwardhan*
To the People, Their Songs I Bring
*- in conversation with Ranjan Palit*
My Journey with Challenges of Representation
*- Deepa Dhanraj*
*III. COLLECTIVES*
Foot Soldiers of Cinema:
The Journey of Pedestrian Pictures
*- Deepu*
When Filmmakers Became a Community
*- Surabhi Sharma*
Whose Development from the Barrel of the Gun?
*- in conversation with Meghnath*
Voices from Gorakhpur
*- Manoj Kumar Singh*
Cinema of Resistance:
Eleven Years with People's Support
*- Sanjay Joshi*
Films of Freedom:
New Documentary Practice in Odisha
*- in conversation with Subrat Kumar Sahu*
Repression Diary:
Notes on Camera and People's Struggle
*- Surya Shankar Dash*
Moving with Films:
People's Film Collective in West Bengal
*- Kasturi Basu and Dwaipayan Banerjee*
Collectivising Cinema:
The Story of Ektara
*- Rinchin and Maheen for Ektara Collective*
Jan Cinema in Mathura
*- Pulkit Phillip and Mohammad Gani*
*IV. LEGACY*
The Life and Times of Chitra Chetana
*- Tapan Sen*
The Guerilla Film - Underground and in Exile:
A Critique and a Case Study of 'Waves of Revolution'
*- reprint of Anand Patwardhan's Masters' thesis,with a new Foreword by
Anand Patwardhan*
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Index of Cited Films
*pp viii+412, includes illustrations, royal 9.5 x 6.25 in.,*
*ISBN 978-93-83968-29-9*
*Paperback Rs575 (India) $30 (Elsewhere). Prices are inclusive of
shipping.*
For more listing details, please check the publishers' website:
http://www.threeessays.com/books/towards-a-people%E2%80%99s-cinema/
It was available at the Delhi World Book Fair, will be available at the
Kolkata International Book Fair (in stalls of Aakar Books, LeftWord Books
and Setu Prakashani, as well as at the Little Magazine pavilion, with
People's Film Collective.) To get a copy in Kolkata, one may call People's
Film Collective at +91-9163736863
Distribution information: Available at major bookstores and with IPD
Alternatives, 44 Shahpur Jatt, Ground Floor, New Delhi 110049 Tel. +91 11
26492040 <011%202649%202040>/26497895. e-mail ***@gmail.com
You could also order directly from www.threeessays.com
Hope you find it engaging. Would love to hear from you!
Best,
Kasturi & Dwaipayan
*PS: Apologies for cross-posting. Please ignore if you got this message
already.*
â
New title from Three Essays
Available from January 6, 2018
*Towards a Peopleâs Cinema*
*Independent Documentary and its Audience in India*
Edited by* Kasturi Basu and Dwaipayan Banerjee*
*Towards a Peopleâs Cinema* hopes to open up more scope for a dialectical
exchange between practitioners, audiences, subjects and activists of
independent documentary cinema, probing the latter as a medium with the
radical potential of challenging and disrupting the status quo.
This collection of essays and interviews aims to enquire, in the
post-colonial Indian context, if cinema can be a democratised peopleâs
medium and a tool for a progressive transformation of the society. It
starts building a repository, perhaps for the first time, of first-person
experiences of collectives and individual film practitioners in India, who
have worked with independent documentary cinema, with a similar enquiry. It
aims to chronicle how politically conscious contemporary film collectives
are re-fashioning the erstwhile notion of film societies as spaces not just
for critical film appreciation but also for broader socio-political
engagement and action.
The independent political documentary in India is a little over 40 years
old. It can be argued that in terms of both content and form, it is a far
more exciting and vibrant place than its fiction counterpart. The horrors
of neoliberal dystopia are perhaps best captured raw and candid in the
documentary than in fictionalised representations of unfurling life.
However, little has been written about the independent documentary in
India, which seriously impairs a critical engagement with it. This book
wishes to contribute to the discourse, by placing the Indian documentary
into historical and material context, from which its present depth and
spread have emerged.
*Contributors*: Anand Patwardhan, Biren Das Sharma, Deepa Dhanraj , Depu,
Dwaipayan Banerjee, Ektara Collective, Kasturi Basu, Manoj Kumar Singh,
Meghnath, Mohammad Gani, Pulkit Phillip, Ranjan Palit, Sanjay Joshi, Sanjay
Kak, Subrat Kumar Sahu, Surabhi Sharma, Surya Shankar Dash, Tapan Bose,
Tapan Sen, Uma Chakravarti
*About the editors*:
*Kasturi Basu* is a social activist, science researcher, occasional writer
and editor based in Kolkata. She is currently directing a documentary,
*S.D.* [2018], on Saroj Dutta, martyred communist poet, journalist and
ideologue of the Naxalbari movement.
*Dwaipayan Banerjee* is a social activist, labour history and film
researcher and independent editor based in Kolkata. He has been a trade
union activist and political commentator.
Both are founder members of the Peopleâs Film Collective, and editors
of *Pratirodher
Cinema*, a magazine on cinema and counterculture.
pp viii+412, includes illustrations, royal 9.5 x 6.25 in.,
ISBN 978-93-83968-29-9
Paperback Rs575 (India) $30 (Elsewhere). Prices are inclusive of
shipping.
Available at major bookstores and with IPD Alternatives, 44 Shahpur Jatt,
Ground Floor, New Delhi 110049 Tel. +91 11 26492040
<011%202649%202040>/26497895.
e-mail ***@gmail.com
You could also order directly from www.threeessays.com