Films Division and the Indian Documentary
Author : Sanjit Narwekar
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Documentary films
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Author : Sanjit Narwekar
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Documentary films
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Author : Peter Sutoris
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Economic development in motion pictures
ISBN : 9780190663001
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.
Author : Peter Sutoris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Community development
ISBN : 9781849045711
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.
Author : Jag Mohan
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Documentary films
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Author : Giulia Battaglia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351375636
This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. The book navigates different historical moments of the growth of documentary filmmaking in India from the colonial period to the present day. In the process, it touches upon questions concerning practices and discourses about colonial films, postcolonial institutions, independent films, filmmakers and filmmaking, the influence of feminism and the articulation of concepts of performance and performativity in various films practices. It also reflects on the centrality of technological change in different historical moments and that of film festivals and film screenings across time and space. Grounded in anthropological fieldwork and archival research and adopting Foucault’s concept of ‘effective history’, this work searches for points of origin that creates ruptures and deviations taking distance from conventional ways of writing film histories. Rather than presenting a univocal set of arguments and conclusions about changes or new developments of film techniques, the originality of the book is in offering an open structure (or an open archive) to enable the reader to engage with mechanisms of creation, engagement and participation in film and art practices at large. In adopting this form, the book conceptualises ‘Anthropology’ as also an art practice, interested, through its theoretico-methodological approach, in creating an open archive of engagement rather than a representation of a distant ‘other’. Similarly, documentary filmmaking in India is seen as primarily a process of creation based on engagement and participation rather than a practice interested in representing an objective reality. Proposing an innovative way of perceiving the growth of the documentary film genre in the subcontinent, this book will be of interest to film historians and specialists in Indian cinema(s) as well as academics in the field of anthropology of art, media and visual practices and Asian media studies.
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Opender Chanana
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Documentary films
ISBN :
Documentary films in India.
Author : Shweta Kishore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474433081
Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal economic system.
Author : Priya Jaikumar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2019-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1478005599
In Where Histories Reside Priya Jaikumar examines eight decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema. In this bold “spatial” film historiography, Jaikumar outlines factors that shape India's filmed space, from state bureaucracies and commercial infrastructures to aesthetic styles and neoliberal policies. Whether discussing how educational shorts from Britain and India transform natural landscapes into instructional lessons or how Jean Renoir’s The River (1951) presents a universal human condition through the particularities of place, Jaikumar demonstrates that the history of filming a location has always been a history of competing assumptions, experiences, practices, and representational regimes. In so doing, she reveals that addressing the persistent question of “what is cinema?” must account for an aesthetics and politics of space.
Author : Erik Barnouw
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Reviews the great changes that have occurred in the past two decades, changes that have brought about a much more general recognition of film within Indiana society and have heightened the social role of film. Discusses the significance of India's great film creator, Satyajut Ray, as well as other talented figures.