Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity.

• Author: Rossoukh, Ramyar D.
• TeilnehmendeR: Caton, Steven C.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)

The contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an anthropological and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries, bringing into relief common film production practices as well as the local contingencies and deeper cultural realities at work in every film industry.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Ramyar D. Rossoukh and Steven C. Caton -- 1. "English Is so Precise, and Hindi Can Be So Heavy!": Language Ideologies and Audience Imaginaries in a Dubbing Studio in Mumbai / Tejaswini Ganti -- 2. The Digital Divine: Postproduction of Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree / Ramyar D. Rossoukh -- 3. Journalists As Cultural Vectors: Film as the Building Blocks of News Narrative in India / Amrita Ibrahim -- 4. "This Is Not a Film": Industrial Expectations and Film Criticism as Censorship at the Bangladesh Film Censor Board / Lotte Hoek -- 5. "This Most Reluctant of Romantic Cities": Dis-location Film Shooting in the Old City of Sana'a / Steven C. Caton -- 6. Stealing Shots: The Ethics and Edgework of Industrial Filmmaking / Sylvia J. Martin -- 7. Making Virtual Reality Film: An Untimely View of Film Futures from (South) Africa / Jessica Dickson -- 8. The Moroccan Film Industry À Contre-Jour: The Unpredictable Odyssey of a Small National Cinema / Kevin Dwyer -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.