The development film in the Americas / Molly Geidel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geidel, Molly, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--America--20th century.

Documentary films.

Propaganda, Capitalist--America--20th century.

Propaganda, Capitalist.

Motion picture producers and directors--America--20th century.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--America--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Developing countries--In motion pictures.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. From the Popular Front to the Modernization Mission

2. Dispossession as Development in US Information Agency Propaganda, Petrodocumentary, and Puerto Rican Community Education Filmmaking

3. Experiments in Fundamental Education Filmmaking and Latin American Regionalism at Pátzcuaro

4. Perfecting the Development Film Form in Revolutionary Bolivia

5. Brutal Pedagogy in the Kennedy Years

6. Women in Development and the New Experiential Documentary

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Development Film Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-41650-3

9780520416505

OCLC:

1534703121