Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

Cinema at the End of Empire A Politics of Transition in Britain and India / Priya Jaikumar. - 1 online resource (xiv, 318 p.) : ill. ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

9780822387749




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


Electronic books.

PN1993.5.I8 / J28 2006

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