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Visions of development : films division of India and the imagination of progress, 1948-75 / Peter Sutoris.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190663001 (ebook) :.Subject(s): India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Films Division of India | India -- History -- 1947-
| Economic development in motion pictures -- India | Motion pictures -- India -- HistoryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190608323DDC classification: 791.430954 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This work examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. It pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analyzing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', the author highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India.
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Previously issued in print: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
This work examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. It pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analyzing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', the author highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India.
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