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.