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.