Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity / edited by Ramyar D. Rossoukh, Steven Charles Caton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caton, Steven Charles, editor.

Rossoukh, Ramyar D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press 2021

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an anthropological and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries, bringing into relief common film production practices as well as the local contingencies and deeper cultural realities at work in every film industry."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

"English is So Precise and Hindi Can be So Heavy!": Language Ideologies and Audience Imaginaries in a Dubbing Studio in Mumbai / Tejaswani Ganti The Digital Devine: Postproduction of Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2005) / Ramyar D. Rossoukh Journalists as Cultural Vectors: Film as the Building Blocks of News Narratives in India / Amrita Ibrahim "This is Not a Film": Industrial Expectations and Film Criticism as Censorship at the Bangladesh Film Censor Board / Lotte Hoek "This Most Reluctant of Romantic Cities": Dis-location Film Shooting in the Old City of Sana'a / Steven C. Caton Stealing Shots: The Ethics and Edgework of Industrial Filmmaking / Sylvia J. Martin Making Virtual Reality Film: An Untimely View of Film Futures from (South) Africa / Jessica Dickson The Moroccan Film Industry: Á Contre-Jour: The Unpredictable Odyssey of a Small National Cinema / Kevin Dwyer.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Duke University Press, viewed March 25, 2023).

ISBN:

9781478092339

1478092335

OCLC:

1264412765

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access