Priya Jaikumar

Cinema at the End of Empire

A Politics of Transition in Britain and India

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337935
• ISBN-10: 0822337932
• Artikelnr.: 22217327

Autorenporträt

Priya Jaikumar is Assistant Professor in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
1. Film Policy and Film Aesthetics as Cultural Archives 13
Part One. Imperial Governmentality
2. Acts of Transition: The British Cinematographic Films Acts of 1927 and
1938 41
3. Empire and Embarassment: Colonial Forms of Knowledge about Cinema 65
Part Two. Imperial Redemption
4. Realism and Empire 107
5. Romance and Empire 135
6. Modernism and Empire 165
Part Three. Colonial Autonomy
7. Historical Romances and Modernist Myths in Indian Cinema 195
Notes 239
Bibliography 289
Index of Films 309
General Index 313