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John - Ghatak - Tarkovsky: citizens, filmmakers, hackers

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tulika Books 2023 New DelhiDescription: vii, 328p.; ill. Includes indexISBN:
  • 9788195055975
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 R2J6
Summary: In June 2015, students of the Film and Television Institute of India went on a strike that became one of the most visible of several student agitations taking place across the country that year. It reminded us once again how, as an idealized cause célèbre, cinema in India has historically been larger than itself and has repeatedly exceeded the spaces to which it has been designated. John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers tells a longer story of the events of 2015. This is a story of the university campus, and of the academic and creative freedoms associated with it. The book speaks of the transfiguration of the filmmaker into an increasingly invisible hacker, of cinema turning into low-resolution moving images, and of how all of this redefined student protest. ‘Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book, John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky, is an analysis of the very nature of cinema that makes it such a threat in the eyes of the state. It is about the right to freedom of expression and dissent at one end, and the counter-strategy to control and regulate it at the other. This is a meticulously documented tale of the journey of a means of communication that had within it the seeds of rebellion, resistance and dissent.’ – Saeed Akhtar Mirza https://ssaf.in/ssaf_programmes/2023-book-launch-discussion-john-ghatak-tarkovsky-citizens-filmmakers-hackers/
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Table of contents

1. The campus in expanded cinema
2. Reinventing the Regisseur
3. Collective arts and lumpen students
4. Celluloid spectres
5. Freedom and dread
6. The macabre spectacle
7. The hollow centre
8. Grotesque bodies
9. The totalitarian pleasure garden

In June 2015, students of the Film and Television Institute of India went on a strike that became one of the most visible of several student agitations taking place across the country that year. It reminded us once again how, as an idealized cause célèbre, cinema in India has historically been larger than itself and has repeatedly exceeded the spaces to which it has been designated. John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers tells a longer story of the events of 2015. This is a story of the university campus, and of the academic and creative freedoms associated with it. The book speaks of the transfiguration of the filmmaker into an increasingly invisible hacker, of cinema turning into low-resolution moving images, and of how all of this redefined student protest.
‘Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s book, John–Ghatak–Tarkovsky, is an analysis of the very nature of cinema that makes it such a threat in the eyes of the state. It is about the right to freedom of expression and dissent at one end, and the counter-strategy to control and regulate it at the other. This is a meticulously documented tale of the journey of a means of communication that had within it the seeds of rebellion, resistance and dissent.’ – Saeed Akhtar Mirza


https://ssaf.in/ssaf_programmes/2023-book-launch-discussion-john-ghatak-tarkovsky-citizens-filmmakers-hackers/

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