1st Edition
Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India Entertaining the Raj
By Babli Sinha
Copyright 2013
168 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Historicizing Entertainment 2. Modernity, Identity, and the Consequences of Americanism 3. The Hybrid Sensorium of Indian Film 4. "No Place for Milksops": Narrating Indians in the United States 5. Empire Films and the Dissemination of Americanism in Colonial India
Biography
Babli Sinha is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Media Studies at Kalamazoo College, USA. She is the editor of South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century (Routledge, 2011).
