Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj

ISBN-13: 9780415528498 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 158 str.

Babli Sinha

Opis

Through the lens of cinema, this book studies the ways in which the United States, Britain, and India impacted each other politically, culturally, and ideologically. The author argues that American films of the 1920s - which generated appeal and controversy across national and social divisions and dominated over 90% of the film industry - posited an alternative notion of whiteness and the West that stood for democracy and social mobility.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).