Main entry:

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Title & Author:

The development film in the Americas / Molly Geidel.

Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2025]
©2025

Description:

xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299), filmography (pages 275-280) and index.
Introduction -- From the popular front to the modernization mission -- Dispossession as development in US information agency propaganda, petrodocumentary, and Puerto Rican community education filmmaking -- Experiments in fundamental education filmmaking and Latin American regionalism at Pátzcuaro -- Perfecting the development film form in revolutionary Bolivia -- Brutal pedagogy in the Kennedy years -- Women in development and the new experiential documentary -- Epilogue -- Selected Filmography.

Summary:

"In this book, Molly Geidel traces the rise and fall of the development film, an overlooked film genre that circulated widely in the Americas from the 1940s through the 1970s. Development films, often short documentaries, were made at the behest of state agencies, global governance organizations, and private corporations to link capitalist conceptions of economic growth to improved quality of life. Development films made this link beautifully compelling, blending elements from ethnography and socially committed leftist film traditions to create indelible narratives of underdevelopment and modernization. The Development Film in the Americas tells the story of these films and the hemispheric cohort of filmmakers who crafted them, chronicling the filmmakers' fraught relationships with both the organizations they worked for and the actors in their films"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780520416475 hardcover
0520416473 hardcover
9780520416482 paperback
0520416481 paperback
electronic book
9780520416505

Subject:

Documentary films America 20th century.
Propaganda, Capitalist America 20th century.
Motion picture producers and directors America 20th century.
Motion pictures America 20th century.
Documentaires Amérique 20e siècle.
Propagande capitaliste Amérique 20e siècle.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma Amérique 20e siècle.
Propaganda, Capitalist.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Motion pictures.
Documentary films.
Developing countries In motion pictures.
Developing countries.
America.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 327969
Call No.: 327969
Copy: 1
Status: Available