Anand Pandian, Anthropology Department, Johns Hopkins University. Cinemechanics: An Anthropology of Creation relies on close ethnographic work over the last six years with Tamil film directors, cameramen, producers, actors, designers, composers and editors. Pandian is concerned here with the affective ecology of filmmaking: the deep immersion of filmmakers themselves in cinematic worlds of experience. The book tries to convey some of this affective texture through certain cinematic devices of writing, focusing attention on dimensions such as imagination, hope, light, sound, fear, rhythm, time, and speed.

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