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Cinema at the End of Empire

A Politics of Transition in Britain and India

By: Priya Jaikumar

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Cinema at the End of Empire

A Politics of Transition in Britain and India

By: Priya Jaikumar

How did the imperial logic underlying British and Indian film policy change with the British Empire’s loss of moral authority and political cohesion? Were British and Indian films of the 1930s and 1940s responsive to and responsible for such shifts? Cinema at the End of Empire illuminates this intertwined history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period. Challenging the rubric of national cinemas that dominates film studies, Priya Jaikumar contends that film aesthetics and film regulations were linked expressions of radical political transformations in a declining British empire and a nascent Indian nation. As she demonstrates, efforts to entice colonial film markets shaped Britain’s national film policies, and Indian responses to these initiatives altered the limits of colonial power in India. Imperially themed British films and Indian films envisioning a new civil society emerged during political negotiations that redefined the role of the state in relation to both film industries. In addition to close readings of British and Indian films of the late colonial era, Jaikumar draws on a wealth of historical and archival material, including parliamentary proceedings, state-sponsored investigations into colonial filmmaking, trade journals, and intra- and intergovernmental memos regarding cinema. Her wide-ranging interpretations of British film policies, British initiatives in colonial film markets, and genres such as the Indian mythological film and the British empire melodrama reveal how popular film styles and controversial film regulations in these politically linked territories reconfigured imperial relations. With its innovative examination of the colonial film archive, this richly illustrated book presents a new way to track historical change through cinema.

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Duke University Press

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0822387743

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9780822387749

Where Histories Reside

India as Filmed Space

By: Priya Jaikumar

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Where Histories Reside

India as Filmed Space

By: Priya Jaikumar

In Where Histories Reside Priya Jaikumar examines eight decades of films shot on location in India to show how attending to filmed space reveals alternative timelines and histories of cinema. In this bold “spatial” film historiography, Jaikumar outlines factors that shape India's filmed space, from state bureaucracies and commercial infrastructures to aesthetic styles and neoliberal policies. Whether discussing how educational shorts from Britain and India transform natural landscapes into instructional lessons or how Jean Renoir’s The River (1951) presents a universal human condition through the particularities of place, Jaikumar demonstrates that the history of filming a location has always been a history of competing assumptions, experiences, practices, and representational regimes. In so doing, she reveals that addressing the persistent question of “what is cinema?” must account for an aesthetics and politics of space.

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293

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Duke University Press

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1478005599

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9781478005599

Bollywood's India

A Public Fantasy

By: Priya Joshi

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Bollywood's India

A Public Fantasy

By: Priya Joshi

Bollywood is India's most popular entertainment and one of its most powerful social forces. Its blockbusters contest ideas about state formation, capture the nation's dispersed anxieties, and fabricate public fantasies of what constitutes "India." Written by an award-winning scholar of popular culture and postcolonial modernity, Bollywood's India analyzes the role of the cinema's most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India. With dazzling interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi provides an interdisciplinary account of popular cinema as a space that filters politics and modernity for its viewers. Themes such as crime and punishment, family and individuality, vigilante and community capture the diffuse aspirations of an evolving nation. Summoning India's tumultuous 1970s as an interpretive lens, Joshi reveals the cinema's social work across decades that saw the decline of studios, the rise of the multi-starrer genre, and the arrival of corporate capital and new media platforms. In elegantly crafted studies of iconic and less familiar films, including Awara (1951), Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957), Deewaar (1975), Sholay (1975), Dil Se (1998), A Wednesday (2008), and 3 Idiots (2009), Joshi powerfully conveys the pleasures and politics of Bollywood blockbusters.

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214

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Columbia University Press

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023153907X

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9780231539074

Coil: A Collection of ecofeminist poems

By: Dr. R. Lakshmi Priya

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Coil: A Collection of ecofeminist poems

By: Dr. R. Lakshmi Priya

It is an undeniable fact that at times the only thing that can take us away from this mundane world to an exhilarating, rejuvenating newer world is our closeness to nature. My journey around the forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and oceans of India started more as an exploration where I ended up gaining deeper understanding of myself. My soil, and the footprints that I left in my soil, healed the industrial wounds that were annihilating me and my spirit. As I became one of nature, I was amazed by the vivid patterns in nature and ‘Coil’ is dedicated to snails, snakes, creepers, barks, shells, chameleons and numerous other coils. This book is about the coils and twirled patterns of nature and how it inspires a woman through her journey of self-understanding.

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Ukiyoto Publishing

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9354909345

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9789354909344

PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 1

By: Dr. M. Kanika Priya

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PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 1

By: Dr. M. Kanika Priya

This Conference Proceedings of the National Seminar entitled “Multidisciplinary Research and Practice” compiled by Dr. M. Kanika Priya records various research papers written by eminent scholars, professors and students. The articles range from English literature to Tamil literature, Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Education, Performing Arts, Information and Communication Technology, Engineering, Technology and Science, Medicine and Pharmaceutical Research, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy, Business, Management, Commerce and Accounting, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Primary and Secondary Education, Law, Science (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Zoology, Botany), Agriculture and Computer Science. Researchers and faculty members from various disciplines have contributed their research papers. This book contains articles in Three languages, namely: English, Tamil and Hindi. As a editor Dr. M. Kanika Priya has taken up the tedious job of checking the validity and correctness of the research work in bringing out this conference proceedings in a beautiful manner. In its present shape and size, this anthology will, hopefully, find a place on the library shelves and enlighten the academics all round the world.

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JEC PUBLICATION

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9357495290

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9789357495295

Cinema at the End of Empire

A Politics of Transition in Britain and India

By: Priya Jaikumar

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Cinema at the End of Empire

A Politics of Transition in Britain and India

By: Priya Jaikumar

DIVHistory of the relationship between government regulation of the film industry in the UK and the the developing film industry in India between the 1920s and 1940s./div

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Duke University Press

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0822337932

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Cinema at the End of Empire

Cinema at the End of Empire

Where Histories Reside

Where Histories Reside

Bollywood's India

Bollywood's India

Coil: A Collection of ecofeminist poems

Coil: A Collection of ecofeminist poems

PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 1

PROCEEDINGS OF NATIONAL SEMINAR ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE VOLUME 1

Cinema at the End of Empire

Cinema at the End of Empire

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