Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema

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Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity
Author: Prem Chowdhry
Publisher: Manchester University Press (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages

This book is an empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema made 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.

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This book is an empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema made 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.

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