Cinema, transnationalism, and colonial India : entertaining the Raj / / Babli Sinha

• Autore: Sinha Babli
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2013; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Disciplina: 791.43/0954
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - India - Foreign influences; Motion picture industry - India - History; Motion pictures - United States - Foreign influences; Motion pictures - Great Britain - Foreign Influences; Motion pictures, Indic; Motion pictures and transnationalism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Historicizing entertainment -- 2 Modernity, identity, and the consequences of Americanism -- Regulating cinema -- Space and segregation -- Misrepresentation and misunderstanding -- Industry practices and political responses -- 3 The hybrid sensorium of Indian film -- Cosmopolitan aesthetics -- Comedy and modernity -- Spiritual and material worlds -- Nationalism and adventure -- 4 No place for milksops: narrating Indians in the United States -- Empire, migration, and assimilation -- The Indian in literature and film -- America and empire -- Cultivating solidarity -- 5 Empire films and the dissemination of Americanism in colonial India -- Genre and geography -- Cultural imperialism and a new Americanism -- The individual as defender of imperial ideals -- American trade and brotherhood -- Mediation and modernization -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for democracy and social mobility even at a time of virulent racism.The book examines the impact that the American cinema has on Indian filmmakers of the period, who were integrating its conventions with indigenous artistic traditions to articulate an Indian modernity. It considers the way American films in the 1920s presented an orientalist fantasy of Asia, which occluded the harsh realities of anti-Asian sentiment and legislation in the period as well as the exciting engagement of anti-imperial activists who sought to use the United States as the base of a transnational network. The book goes on to analyse the American 'empire films' of the 1930s, which adapted British narratives of empire to represent the United States as a new global paradigm.Presenting close readings of films, literature and art from the era, the book engages cinema studies with theories of post-colonialism and transnationalism, and provides a novel approach to the study of Indian cinema"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Cinema, transnationalism, and colonial India
• ISBN: 0-203-55899-5; 1-299-46956-6; 1-136-76500-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779559803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in South Asian history ; ; 14.