Jaikumar, Priya, 1967-

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.

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

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