LEADER 02977nam 22003733a 450 001 9910831886503321 005 20230828230633.0 010 $a1-4780-9138-X 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.26530/oapen_625239 035 $a(CKB)5490000000052418 035 $a(OCoLC)1028775625 035 $a(ScCtBLL)6d8e65d4-1c1d-4875-8420-5765da04a0f5 035 $a(EXLCZ)995490000000052418 100 $a20211214i20062017 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aCinema at the End of Empire : $eA Politics of Transition in Britain and India /$fPriya Jaikumar 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (333 p.) 330 $aHow 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. Imperially themed British films and Indian films envisioning a new civil society emerged during political negotiations that redefined the role of the state in relation to both film industries. In addition to close readings of British and Indian films of the late colonial era, Jaikumar draws on a wealth of historical and archival material, including parliamentary proceedings, state-sponsored investigations into colonial filmmaking, trade journals, and intra- and intergovernmental memos regarding cinema. Her wide-ranging interpretations of British film policies, British initiatives in colonial film markets, and genres such as the Indian mythological film and the British empire melodrama reveal how popular film styles and controversial film regulations in these politically linked territories reconfigured imperial relations. With its innovative examination of the colonial film archive, this richly illustrated book presents a new way to track historical change through cinema. 606 $aPerforming Arts / Film / History & Criticism$2bisacsh 606 $aPerforming arts 615 7$aPerforming Arts / Film / History & Criticism 615 0$aPerforming arts 700 $aJaikumar$b Priya$01725710 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910831886503321 996 $aCinema at the End of Empire$94129938 997 $aUNINA