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 [log in to unmask] 919-687-3650 ********************************************************************* 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 ********************************************************************* ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu