By Babli Sinha
Through the lens of cinema, this e-book explores the ways that the USA, Britain and India impacted one another politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American motion pictures of the Nineteen Twenties posited substitute notions of whiteness and the West to that of england, which stood for democracy and social mobility even at a time of virulent racism.
The publication examines the effect that the yankee cinema has on Indian filmmakers of the interval, who have been integrating its conventions with indigenous creative traditions to articulate an Indian modernity. It considers the best way American motion pictures within the Nineteen Twenties offered an orientalist fable of Asia, which occluded the tough realities of anti-Asian sentiment and laws within the interval in addition to the fascinating engagement of anti-imperial activists who sought to take advantage of the USA because the base of a transnational community. The ebook is going directly to examine the yankee ‘empire movies’ of the Thirties, which tailored British narratives of empire to symbolize the us as a brand new international paradigm.
Presenting shut readings of movies, literature and artwork from the period, the booklet engages cinema reviews with theories of post-colonialism and transnationalism, and offers a unique method of the research of Indian cinema.
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