Cinema at the end of empire : a politics of transition in Britain and India / Priya Jaikumar.
How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Knowledge Unlatched.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire's loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period. Challenging the rubric of national cinemas that dominates film studies, Priya Jaikumar contends that film aesthetics and film regulations were linked expressions of radical political transformations in a declining British empire and a nascent Indian nation. As she demonstrates, efforts to entice colonial film markets shaped Britain's national film policies, and Indian responses to these initiatives altered the limits of colonial power in India. History of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and 1940s. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822387749 0822387743 |