Laleen Jayamanne examines the major works of leading Indian film director, Kumar Shahani, and explores the reaches of modernist film aesthetics in its international form. More than an auteur study, Jayamanne approaches Shahani's films conceptually, as those that reveal cinema's synaesthetic capabilities, or "cinaesthesia." As the author shows, Shahani's cinematic project entails a modern reformulation of the ancient oral tradition of epic narration and performance in order to address the contemporary world, establishing a new cinematic expression, "an epic idiom." As evidenced by his films, constructing cinematic history becomes more than an archival project of retrieval, and is instead a living history of the present which can intervene in the current moment through sensory experiences, propelling thought.
| ISBN: | 9780253014108 |
| Publication date: | 22nd October 2014 |
| Author: | Laleen Jayamanne |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Individual film directors, film-makers |
Laleen Jayamanne examines the major works of leading Indian film director, Kumar Shahani, and explores the reaches of modernist film aesthetics in its international form. More than an auteur study, Jayamanne approaches Shahani's films conceptually, as those that reveal cinema's synaesthetic capabilities, or "cinaesthesia." As the author shows, Shahani's cinematic project entails a modern reformulation of the ancient oral tradition of epic narration and performance in order to address the contemporary world, establishing a new cinematic expression, "an epic idiom." As evidenced by his films, constructing cinematic history becomes more than an archival project of retrieval, and is instead a living history of the present which can intervene in the current moment through sensory experiences, propelling thought.
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani features in the following genres: Film history, theory or criticism, Individual film directors, film-makers
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani was written by Laleen Jayamanne and published by Indiana University Press
The Epic Cinema of Kumar Shahani has 296 pages