cinema at the end of empire CINEMA AT duke university press * DurhamandLondon * 2006 priya jaikumar THE END OF EMPIRE A Politics of Transition in Britain and India ©2006DukeUniversityPress * Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaonacid-freepaper(cid:5) DesignedbyAmyRuthBuchanan TypesetinQuadraatbyTsengInformationSystems,Inc. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataandpermissions informationappearonthelastprintedpageofthisbook. Formyparents malati and jaikumar * * Aswelookbackattheculturalarchive,webegintoreread itnotunivocallybutcontrapuntally,withasimultaneous awarenessbothofthemetropolitanhistorythatisnarrated andofthoseotherhistoriesagainstwhich(andtogether withwhich)thedominatingdiscourseacts. —EdwardSaid,CultureandImperialism CONTENTS ListofIllustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. FilmPolicyandFilmAestheticsasCulturalArchives 13 partone * imperial governmentality 2. ActsofTransition:TheBritishCinematographFilmsActs of1927and1938 41 3. EmpireandEmbarrassment:ColonialFormsofKnowledge aboutCinema 65 parttwo * imperial redemption 4. RealismandEmpire 107 5. RomanceandEmpire 135 6. ModernismandEmpire 165
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