Reel World An Anthropology of Creation

Pandian, Anand & Walter Murch

ISBN 10: 0822360004 / ISBN 13: 9780822360001

Published by Duke University Press Books, 2015

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Rubbing and toning overall, some brief bumps to the edges and the heel, and is inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Photo on request. International shipping billed at cost. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 360 pages; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reel World An Anthropology of Creation
• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822360004
• ISBN 13: 9780822360001
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy
  • University Press

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Synopsis

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.

 

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.