
Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation
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Anand Pandian (Author) Walter Murch (Contributor)
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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. 51 illustrations, incl. 1 in c
About the Author
Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, also published by Duke University Press. Walter Murch is an Academy Award-winning film editor and sound designer, and the author of In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing.
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- Contributor: Anand Pandian
- Imprint: Duke University Press
- ISBN13: 9780822360001
- Number of Pages: 360
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 499
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Release Date: 2015-11-23
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Anand Pandian teaches anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India, also published by Duke University Press. Walter Murch is an Academy Award-winning film editor and sound designer, and the author of In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing.
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