Cinema at the end of empire : a politics of transition in Britain and India /
Priya Jaikumar.
- 1st ed.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- xiv, 318 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm.
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.