Cinema At The End Of Empire: A Politics Of Transition In Britain And India (seagull)

This book illuminates this interwined history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period. Challenging the rubris of national cinemas that dominates film studies, Priya Jaikumar contends the 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 Britains' national film polities, 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. New Book