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Visions of development : Films Division of India and the imagination of progress, 1948-75 / Peter Sutoris.
Publisher: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: xxvi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781849045711 (pbk.)
- 9780199472109
- 791.430954 SUT 23
- PN1995.9.D6 S8745 2016
Contents:
Description : Visions of Development examines the Indian state’s postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975–7. 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 visionsofdevelopment.com.
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| 791.430954 LAL Fingerprinting popular culture : | 791.430954 NAN The secret politics of our desires : | 791.430954 RAG Seduced by the familiar : | 791.430954 SUT Visions of development : | 791.430954 VAS The melodramatic public : | 792 OBE Sri Lankan theater in a time of terror : Political satire in a permitted space | 793.74 RAO - 4 Game, set and mathcless |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-299) and indexes.
Description : Visions of Development examines the Indian state’s postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975–7. 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 visionsofdevelopment.com.