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PRIVATE MODERNITIES:
THE “I” IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN DOCUMENTARY AND
VISUAL CULTURE
by
Veena Hariharan
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CINEMA-TELEVISION: CRITICAL STUDIES)
December 2011
Copyright 2011 Veena Hariharan
Object Description
| Title | Private modernities: the "I" in contemporary Indian documentary and visual culture |
| Author | Hariharan, Veena |
| Author email | harihara@usc.edu;hariharan.veena@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-09-01 |
| Date submitted | 2011-09-01 |
| Date approved | 2011-09-02 |
| Restricted until | 2013-09-01 |
| Date published | 2013-09-01 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Renov, Michael |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Jaikumar, Priya Lippit, Akira Mizuta |
| Abstract | A significant new trend in contemporary Indian Documentary, since the mid-nineties has been the emergence of the first-person documentary by women and gay filmmakers and filmmakers from religious minority groups. Does a certain kind of documentary exist because certain kinds of subjects/ subjectivities exist? What features of Indian life – institutional, political, social and cultural – influenced the emergence of certain kinds of subjectivities and their self-representation in the documentary form? The dissertation attempts to answer these questions while delineating the material history of the conditions of its emergence and the new forms of political selfhood that the first-person documentary enables and represents. Tracing a genealogy of the first-person documentary, the first part of the dissertation focuses on the colonial home movie archive (1895-1947) positing it as a site of negotiations, meaning making and memory-work in the complex processes of decolonization of the imperial eye/I. The second part of the dissertation looks at the postcolonial archive and the self-representation by the postcolonial subject in the first-person documentary form. Signifying a shift from statist top-down models of the documentary tradition in India that sought to create disciplined subjects to serve the new nation’s modernist project, and distinctive from the political subjectivity invoked in civil society discourses of rights and justice in activist and advocacy media, I argue that the first-person documentary mobilizes a new citizen-spectator subject and a new form of documentary consciousness, an “embodied and ethical spectatorship” that is created at the interstices of the public and the private, critical and contemplative, moral and ethical. |
| Keyword | India; documentary; subjectivity; postcolonial; empire; home movies |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Hariharan, Veena |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume71/etd-HariharanV-279.pdf |
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| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | PRIVATE MODERNITIES: THE “I” IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN DOCUMENTARY AND VISUAL CULTURE by Veena Hariharan A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CINEMA-TELEVISION: CRITICAL STUDIES) December 2011 Copyright 2011 Veena Hariharan |
