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In search of a future / produced by Consortium for Educational Communication, India, Mass Communication Research Centre, in association with Film Australia ... [and others] ; director and writer, Amar Kanwar ; producer, Habib Kidwai.
Penn Museum Library - Desk DVD HQ670 .I52 2006
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Family (Film Australia)
- Family
- Language:
- English
- Hindi
- Subjects (All):
- Families--India--Case studies.
- Families.
- Households--India--Case studies.
- Households.
- Patriarchy.
- India.
- Patriarchy--India--Case studies.
- Documentary films.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Title on disc label: Family : India
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Distributed by Insight Media, [2006?]
- Language Note:
- English narration with Hindi dialogue, subtitled in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Looks at the Surkheda family, who still live as a feudal rural community. The current patriarch is now aging, and some of the women and other members are questioning the validity of traditional roles based on caste and gender.
- Notes:
- Series devised by Film Australia and TVOntario.
- Videodisc copy of a film originally produced in 1995.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 57305698
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