Film City Urbanism in India

The book is about the reciprocal relationship between cinema and the city as two institutions which co-constitute each other while fashioning the socio-political currents of the region. It interrogates imperial, postcolonial, socio-cultural, and economic imprints as captured, introduced, and left behind by politics of cinema, in the site of Hyderabad. It traverses through the makings and remakings of Hyderabad as princely city, linguistic capital city, and global city, studied through capital, labour, and organization of the film industry. It brings together diverse, and rich historical material to narrate the social history of Hyderabad, over a hundred years.

C. Yamini Krishna is Assistant Professor in the department of Communication Studies at the FLAME University, Pune, India. She has been the recipient of India Foundation for the Arts grant (2023), Asia Art Archive - Shergil Sundaram Foundation archival grant (2022), Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Independent Research Grant (2022), Philip M. Taylor Award for best article by a new researcher (2021), Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship (2017). Her research lies in Film History, Urban History, and Deccan history. She has published in Urban History, South Asian Popular Culture, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television and South Asia. She is the founding member of Khidki collective, a group of scholars committing to reimagining and building perspectives on regional identities with a view to challenging established narratives around history, nationhood and belonging.