{"product_id":"9781350602830","title":"Documentary Cinema and Video Installation in India Archives of Dissonance","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSouth Asian Screen Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eDocumentary Cinema and Video Installation in India\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eArchives of Dissonance\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAnuja Jain | Rohit K. Dasgupta | Sangita Gopal\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerforming Arts \/ Film \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFocusing on independent political documentaries and video installations,\u003ci\u003e Archives of Dissonance in Indian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e explores the forms of artistic resistance that emerged in response to the rise of militant right-wing nationalism in India from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnuja Jain revisits this era of India's transformation from a young postcolonial democracy to a rapidly globalising and radicalising nation-state, marked by escalating right-wing violence as seen in the Bombay riots of 1992–1993 and the 2002 Gujarat genocide. Set against this turbulent backdrop, she considers how filmmakers and video artists used their work as a site of political intervention. Jain analyses a broad range of political documentaries-including \u003ci\u003eRam Ke Naam\u003c\/i\u003e ('In the Name of God', 1992), \u003ci\u003eThe Boy in the Branch\u003c\/i\u003e (1993),\u003ci\u003e I Live in Behrampada\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eThe Men in the Tree\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), \u003ci\u003eUnity in Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e (2003),\u003ci\u003e Lacuna in Testimony\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003eI Love My India\u003c\/i\u003e (2003),\u003ci\u003e Final Solution\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), and \u003ci\u003eHindustan Hamara\u003c\/i\u003e ('This Country Is Ours', 2014)-alongside previously unexplored materials such as such as state news transcripts, right-wing propaganda videos, government files, litigation records, censored media broadcasts, and rare video newsmagazines. In doing so, she argues that these filmmakers produced an 'archive of dissonance' that challenged official narratives and resisted state censorship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJain argues for the urgency of revisiting this turn of the century period from the vantage point of the present, reframing these resistant texts as 'living archives'-unfinished, ongoing, and globally resonant in an era marked by authoritarianism, brutal censorship, and contested notions of citizenship and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAnuja Jain is Assistant Professor of Film and Global South Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, USA. She is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Poetics of Indian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2017). Her research has been published in several journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarg\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndian Cinema beyond Bollywood: The New Independent Cinema Revolution \u003c\/i\u003e(2018)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Indian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (2022).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 February 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350602830\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331928653964,"sku":"9781350602830","price":103.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_6f087969-a36b-46cd-a129-9434baa7eae7.jpg?v=1783600290","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350602830","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}