Cinema at the end of empire a politics of transition in Britain and India /

Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

Cinema at the end of empire a politics of transition in Britain and India / [electronic resource] : Priya Jaikumar. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2006. - xiv, 318 p. : ill. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-308) and index.

Film policy and film aesthetics as cultural archives -- Acts of transition: the British cinematograph films acts of 1927 and 1938 -- Empire and embarrassment: colonial forms of knowledge about cinema -- Realism and empire -- Romance and empire -- Modernism and empire -- Historical romances and modernist myths in Indian cinema.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




Motion picture industry--History.--India
Motion picture industry--History.--Great Britain
Motion pictures, British--India.


Electronic books.

PN1993.5.I8 / J28 2006