Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj - Routledge Studies in South Asian History by Babli Sinha Details
Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India have influenced each other politically, culturally and intellectually. She argues that American…
Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India have influenced each other politically, culturally and intellectually. She argues that American films in the 1920s presented alternative concepts of whiteness and the West to the ideas of Britain, which symbolize democracy and social mobility even in a time of evil racism.
The book examines the impact of American cinema on Indian filmmakers of that period, who were integrating its conventions with original artistic traditions to express Indian modernity. She looks at how American films in the 1920s presented a future Asia to Asia, which solved the harsh realities of anti-Asian morale and legislation in that period, as well as the provocative participation of anti-imperialist activists who sought to use the United States as a transnational network base.
The book continues to analyze the "American Empire films" of the 1930s, which developed the British novels of the empire to represent the United States as a new global model. The book offers close readings of films, literature and art from that era, participates in film studies with postcolonial and transnational theories, and offers a new approach to the study of Indian cinema..
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