Cinema at the end of empire : a politics of transition in Britain and India /
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 |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Knowledge Unlatched
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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 (1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages)) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780822387749 0822387743 0822337800 0822337932 1283022311 9781283022316 9786613022318 6613022314 9780822337805 9780822337935 9781478091387 147809138X |