Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema

Image, Ideology and Identity

• Author(s): Prem Chowdhry,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 294
• ISBN_10: 0719057256
  ISBN_13: 9780719057250
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Performing Arts / Film / General , Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... An empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.