Research Catalog

Title

Visions of development : films division of India and the imagination of progress, 1948-75 / Peter Sutoris.

Author

Sutoris, Peter

Publication

• London : Hurst & Company, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xxvi, 318 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

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 cinemaic 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. The first scholarly volume to be published on the history of Indian documentary film.

Subject

• Since 1947
• Soziale Situation
• Regionalentwicklung
• Dokumentarfilm
• Documentary films > India > History and criticism
• Community development > India
• Community development
• Documentary films
• Social conditions
• Indien
• India > Social conditions > 1947-
• India

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE COLONIAL AND THE POSTCOLONIAL -- 1. Introduction -- Fighting for Modernity: Nehru and the `Development Documentary' -- The Tree in Front of the Films Division -- Toward a Postcolonial Development Ideology -- (Re) Writing the History of Indian Documentary -- Film Analysis and Development -- 2. Tracing Colonial Documentary, 1926 -- 46 -- The Origins and Definition of Colonial Documentary -- India in Colonial Documentary -- Indian Wartime Documentary, Development and Orientalism -- 3. The Emergence of the Films Division: Institutional Roots and Tensions -- Organisational Structure and Creative Freedom -- Distribution, Compulsory Exhibition and Target Audiences -- Internal Dialogues and Tensions -- The (Lost) Case for Independent Film -- Animation in Service of Government Film -- FD Under Fire from Critics -- FD and (Post)Colonial Film -- pt. II DEFINING DEVELOPMENT -- 4. Cinematic Imagining of the New Indian Citizen -- `Mr Critic and Mr "X"': In Service of the Common Good -- `That Inheritance -- This Progress': Cinematic Uplift of Adivasis -- `My Wise Daddy Holding an Umbrella to Prevent Chaos': Planning an Acceptable Family -- `The Answer Lies with Each Individual': The Development Regime and Behaviour Reform -- 5. `Our Industrial Age': Planning, Industrialisation and Large Dams -- FD in Service of Colonial Ideology -- Economic Planning and Industrialisation Through the Prism, of FD Films -- `Temples of Tomorrow': Development as a Secular Religion -- `Coming Home to a Better Life': The Rural and the Urban in Development -- Novel Techniques in Service of Old Goals -- `The Development Documentary' -- pt. III DISSONANT VOICES -- 6. Films Division's Transient Outliers, 1965 -- c. 1973 -- Jehangir Bhownagary and the `Golden' 1960s -- S. Sukhdev and the Double-Edged Sword of Development -- A Coalition of Outliers? -- Documentary as a `Creative Treatment of Actuality' -- The `Interview Film' of the 1960s -- Gender and the Outliers -- S. N. S. Sastry: Beyond Nehruvian Developmentalism? -- A Break with the Past? -- 7. Concluding Reflections: Visions of Development -- The Authoritarian Tendencies of the Nehruvian Development Regime -- The Multiplicity of the Statist Vision -- The Films Division's Legacy.

ISBN

• 1849045712
• 9781849045711

OCLC

• 920866696
• SCSB-12485594

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library