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Abstract: This is the fifth and final film in the filmmaker's Doon School Quintet, an intimate study of India’s most prestigious boys’ boarding school. In this film he focuses on the life of one student whom he discovers at the school. The film explores the thoughts and feelings of Abhishek, a 12-year-old from Nepal, during his first days and weeks as a Doon student. This is at once the story of the encounter between a filmmaker and his subject and a glimpse of the mind of a child at “the age of reason.” Production Date: 02/01/2004 Distributor: Berkeley Media LLC 2600 Tenth Street, Suite 626 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 Phone: (510) 486 9900 Fax: (510) 486 9944 Email / Website: info@berkeleymedia.com http://www.berkeleymedia.com Running Time: 87 Medium: DVD Film Credits: Camera, Sound, Editing: David MacDougall Film Purpose: To present, in the context of a more comprehensive study of the Doon School, the experiences of one new student from Nepal as he confronts the challenges of adjusting to the social and cultural norms of an elite institution that has come to epitomize many aspects of Indian postcoloniality. Film Audience: University students, secondary school students, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, educational psychologists, and those concerned with South Asian studies, postcolonial studies, and masculinity/gender studies. Role of the Anthropologist / Collaboration: Sanjay Srivastava was not directly involved in the project but paved the way as a sympathetic professional colleague and author of Constructing Post-Colonial India: National Character and the Doon School (Routledge, 1998). Filmmaker: David MacDougall, Australian National University Keywords: India, postcoloniality, schools |
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