2012年1月1日 星期日

Travels, Songs and Displacements: Movement in Translocal Documentaries Interrogating Development

Travels, Songs and Displacements

Movement in Translocal Documentaries Interrogating Development

作者

  1. Rahul Mukherjee
  1. Rahul Mukherjee is affiliated with the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, US. E-mail: rahul_mukherjee@umail.ucsb.edu

資料來源

 doi: 10.1177/097492761100300105

  BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies vol. 3 no. 1 53-68

摘要

This article analyzes a set of translocal documentary films by always-on-the-move filmmakers who attempt to connect place-based struggles against exploitative development projects. These films stitch together recorded footage from various locales/places to bring out the commonalities and shared patterns among them, thereby creating translocal/transplace alliances interrogating the dominant development discourse. In some of these works, train journeys between two places become a way of connecting to the past and renewing erstwhile translocal ties. I examine the links between aesthetic strategies of depicting movement in the documentaries, and their political critique of the displacement and forced migration of indigenous communities in the wake of exogenous developmental interventions. While each documentary film highlights “movement,” the formal elements that achieve this vary from songs narrating journeys to expressive montages with multilayered soundtracks. Engaging in a discussion of Kora Rajee, which remembers and redeploys indigenous historical experiences of travel of the Oraon tribe, I explore how critiques of development can be approached by attending to the changing cultural-politics of tribal identities and their representation through documentaries. 

關鍵字

2 則留言:

  1. An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a co-worker who
    had been conducting a little homework on this. And he actually bought me breakfast because
    I discovered it for him... lol. So let me reword this.
    ... Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanx for spending
    some time to discuss this matter here on your site.


    Stop by my weblog; http://chestfatburner.com/

    回覆刪除
  2. Hi it's me, I am also visiting this website daily, this web site is genuinely nice and the visitors are in fact sharing nice thoughts.

    Feel free to surf to my webpage - Anadrol boosts the chance associated with gynecomastiain males

    回覆刪除