The Role of the cinema in promoting popular participation in cultural life in India / by Aruna Vasudev
Series: Informes/Estudis ; CREA No.1Publication details: Paris : Unesco, 1982Description: 25 pSummary: For India’s multi-layered society, the cinema emerges as a social leveller, as perhaps the only social integrator. It has become the pop art of India with a far-reaching influence on folk music, dance and theatre, on street art, posters, calendar painting--all the popular forms of expression from which it had drawn its original inspiration. In a country where the majority of the population is illiterate, the cinema is the most potent form of communication. For a primarily rural people, the cinema offers a tantalizing glimpse of urban living. For the urban underprivileged, struggling to survive, the price of a cinema ticket provides a brief escape into a fantasy world. For an orthodox, tradition-bound majority, tightly governed by taboos, the cinema affords momentary freedom from the weight of an oppressive conditioning. The cinema is both temple and night club. It offers entertainment, shows vice and preaches virtue; it reflects and shapes all aspects of a society in transition. It is a bazaar, a café, and the major source of informal education. (Font: Introduction)| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC | UNE 32 | 1 | Available | 1900023203 |
Introduction: Historical overview ; The war years ; Independence 1947 -- I. Scope and content: Commercial cinema--cultural content ; The minority cinema ; The middle wave, or new trends within the popular cinema ; Regional cinema ; The role of the documentary ; The cultural content of the imported film ; Festivals -- II. Popular cultural life in India and the role of the cinema ; The danger of the cinema -- III. Cinematographic superstructure: The role of government in the promotion of popular culture films ; Links between radio, television and cinema -- IV. Recommendations
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