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040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a791.430954 _bSi64c
100			_aSinha, Babli
245			_aCinema, transnationalism, and colonial India _bentertaining the Raj _cBabli Sinha
260			_bRoutledge _c2013 _aLondon
300			_ax, 157p
440			_aRoutledge Studies in South Asian History
490			_ano.14
520			_aThrough 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.
650			_aMotion picture industry
650			_aMotion pictures -- Foreign influences
650			_aMotion pictures, Indic
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