Visions of Development:: Films Division of India and the Imagination of Progress 1948-75 - Brossura

Sutoris, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0190608323 ISBN 13: 9780190608323

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Visions of Development examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analysing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', his book highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India. It is the first scholarly volume to be published on the history of Indian documentary film. Of the approximately 250 documentaries analysed by Peter Sutoris, many of which have never been discussed in the existing literature, most are concerned with economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, schemes aimed at the integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education.

Almost all films analysed in this volume are available for free online viewing through the website of the Films Division. Links are provided on the companion website www.visionsofdevelopment.com.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Sutoris, born in Slovakia, is a scholar of film and development, documentary filmmaker and educator. He has lived and worked in South Asia, the Pacific, the Balkans and the Middle East. A History graduate of Dartmouth College, he is currently studying Education at Cambridge University. Visions of Development is his first book.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0190608323
• ISBN 13: 9780190608323
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 318
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile