Krishna and catir nāccu: Feature film as a political medium

Autor: Damaris Lüthi
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Visual Anthropology. 5:271-284
ISSN: 1545-5920
0894-9468
DOI: 10.1080/08949468.1993.9966593
Popis: From the 1950s the South Indian Dravidian Movement used feature films extensively for the dissemination of its political propaganda. Adapting itself to traditional aesthetics, religious and political sentiments, the modern medium‐with its visual potential for conveying analyses and slogans‐proved to be most efficient in reaching a public which was mostly illiterate.
Databáze: OpenAIRE