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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung With an adventurous writing style! Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema! following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production! marketing! and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Walter Murch ix Note to the Reader, also a Listener and Seer xvii 1. Reel World 1 2. Dreams 21 3. Hope 37 4. Space 53 5. Art 69 6. Love 85 7. Desire 99 8. Light 107 9. Color 121 10. Time 135 11. Imagination 151 12. Pleasure 167 13. Sound 181 14. Voice 199 15. Rhythm 205 16. Speed 219 17. Wonder 237 18. Fate 251 19. An Anthropology of Creation 267 Acknowledgments 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 313 Index 329...
