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This article looks at the 2012 Indian film, Shanghai, as an example of "realist fiction" which holds a mirror to how the Indian state envisions developing its rural and periurban areas into Shanghais of the future.
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Though anthropologists rely on in-depth fieldwork to generate theories and knowledge, I show how one can apply an anthropological lens to realist films - especially those on political and social issues - to illuminate these processes and realities.
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This page is a summary of: The poetics and politics of ‘progress’ in neoliberal India: The state and its margins in Shanghai (2012), Studies in South Asian Film & Media, February 2021, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/safm_00035_1.
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