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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jaikumar, Priya, 1967- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press 2006.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44538467*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.