GANDHI
- the film GANDHI
- the film
FILM
Allen |
Film history : theory and practice |
Kaes |
From Hitler to Heimat : the return of history as film |
McArthur |
Television and history |
Marwick |
The nature of history (re: film as source material) |
Monaco |
How to read a film : …language, history & theory of film & media |
Modleski |
Old wives' tales : feminist re-visions of film and other fictions. |
O'Connor |
Image as artifact : the historical analysis of film and television |
Smith |
The historian and film |
Sobchack |
The persistence of history : cinema, television, and the modern event |
Sorlin |
The film in history : restaging the past |
website |
Periodicals Film history, , Historical journal of film, radio, and television
THIS FILM (hyper-links active on the 'South Asia website')
| website | Movie Reviews UK |
| Flick filosopher | |
| Popcorn peacemaker | |
| City Review | |
| Johnson review | |
| Genova | Gandhi: saint or politician |
| Brain | Teaching modern Indian history through the film Gandhi |
| etc... | etc... |
INITIAL POINTERS
How is Gandhi portrayed (continuity & change)?
How did Gandhi respond to his environment?
Why did Gandhi act the way he did
How was Jinnah portrayed ?
How were Ambedkar and Aurobindo portrayed, or not ?
How were the British portrayed ?
Was Gandhi a saint, a politician, neither, both, etc. ?
To portray Gandhi by an English actor (Ben Kingsley), what does that imply or not?
Film as history, as re-enactment, 'empathy', what ?
What do we see of Gandhi's religious imperatives
What do we see of his vision of society
Is his vision of society derived from his religious standpoint, or vice-versa
Gandhi the individual - Gandhi's context - Gandhi's comparisons - Gandhi's legacy
India: Religion & Society