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Kumar Shahani

The Shock of Desire and other essays

Edited by : Ashish Rajadhyaksha

9789382381617

Tulika Books 2015

Language: English

392 Pages

7.25 x 9.25 Inches

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About the Book

The fifty-one essays compiled in this book were written over a forty-year period by India’s leading independent filmmaker. They provide new insights into a turbulent era in modern India’s cultural history.

Although known primarily as a filmmaker, Kumar Shahani has taught, spoken and written on a variety of subjects over this period, that include the cinema, but also politics, aesthetics, history and psychoanalysis. In these essays Shahani addresses diverse political issues, aesthetic practice, questions of artistic freedom and censorship. There are also personal essays on filmmakers and artists including his teachers and colleagues. Shahani’s often polemical positions, as they occur in several previously unpublished essays and presentations, are essential contributions to film and cultural histories of the Indian cinema as well as of the New Cinema worldwide.

The book includes a comprehensive introductory essay, ‘Kumar Shahani Now’, by its editor Ashish Rajadhyaksha.

Ashish Rajadhyaksha

Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a film historian and occasional art curator. He is the author of Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic (1982), Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency (2009) and The Last Cultural Mile: An Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India (2011). He edited the Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema (with Paul Willemen) (1994, 1999), In the Wake of Aadhaar: The Digital Ecosystem of Governance in India (2013), and a book of Kumar Shahani’s writings, The Shock of Desire and Other Essays (2015). He co-wrote, with Nishant Shah and Nafis Aziz Hasan, Overload, Creep, Excess: An Internet from India (2021). Rajadhyaksha co-curated (with Geeta Kapur) the ‘Bombay/Mumbai 1992–2001’ section of ‘Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis’ at the Tate Modern (2002); the ‘You Don’t Belong’ festival of film and video in four cities in China (2011) and ‘Memories of Cinema’ at the IVth Guangzhou Triennial (2011); ‘“Make-Belong”: Films in Kochi from China and Hong Kong’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2015); and the exhibition ‘Tah-Satah: A Very Deep Surface: Mani Kaul & Ranbir Singh Kaleka: Between Film and Video’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur (January–March 2017).

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