Cinema at the End of Empire : a Politics of Transition in Britain and India /

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Author / Creator:Jaikumar, Priya, author.
Imprint:Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, ©2005.
Berlin : Knowledge Unlatched, ©2005.
©2005
Description:1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13525249
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Varying Form of Title:Cinema at the End of Empire, A Politics of Transition in Britain and India
ISBN:0822387743
9780822387749
0822337800
0822337932
9780822337805
9780822337935
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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In English.
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.
Other form:Print version: Cinema at the End of Empire, A Politics of Transition in Britain and India. Durham, N.C., : Duke University Press c2005 9780822337805