Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India Book

Contents

List of Illustrations....................xi
Acknowledgments....................xiii
Introduction....................1
1. Film Policy and Film Aesthetics as Cultural Archives....................13
2. Acts of Transition: The British Cinematograph Films Acts of 1927 and 1938....................41
3. Empire and Embarrassment: Colonial Forms of Knowledge about Cinema....................65
4. Realism and Empire....................107
5. Romance and Empire....................135
6. Modernism and Empire....................165
7. Historical Romances and Modernist Myths in Indian Cinema....................195
Notes....................239
Bibliography....................289
Index of Films....................309
General Index....................313