Dear List Editor,

Priya Jaikumar's new book, /*Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of 
Transition in Britain and India*/, would certainly be of interest to 
Screen-L listserv members. /Cinema at the End of Empire/ traces the 
intertwined history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial 
period, revealing how popular film styles and controversial film 
regulations in the politically linked territories of Britain and India 
reconfigured imperial relations.Can you please post an announcement of 
this book to the Screen-L listserv?

Many thanks,
Dafina Blacksher Diabate
Publicity, Duke University Press
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919-687-3650

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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.

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.

For more information, visit the book's website:
http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=8223-3793-2

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