1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema
Biography
Jayjit Sarkar is assistant professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of the monograph Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (2019) and the editor-contributor of Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration (2023).
Anik Sarkar is assistant professor of English at SRM University Sikkim. His research areas and interests include philosophy of technology, surveillance, film studies and videogames. His recent work is The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2024).
‘A vibrant collection, The Routledge Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema will prompt and inform multifaceted inquiry into the filmic inventions and societal fabulations which are catalyzed by, and steadfastly emerging from, the regional, cultural, and linguistic peripheries of India today.
Co-editors Anik Sarkar and Jayjit Sarkar have made a thoughtful selection of chapters, many of which discuss indies that circulate primarily in festivals and independent theaters. By gathering the chapters loosely in clusters such as “Nation and Narration,” “Gender and Sexuality,” “Making and Unmaking”, and “Memory and Desire,” the editors illuminate the flexibility and versatility of the indie as a dynamic creative and critical process.
The Handbook is an invaluable resource that will be consulted time and again by scholars, critics, and a broad readership engaging with Indian, global South, and world cinemas in the plural.’
—Jeffner Allen, State University of New York, USA
