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Travel Cinematography and the Indian City: The Imperial Spectacle of Geography at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century

Cinquegrani, Maurizio (2010) Travel Cinematography and the Indian City: The Imperial Spectacle of Geography at the End of the Long Nineteenth Century. Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 32 (1). pp. 65-78. ISSN 0890-5495. (doi:10.1080/08905491003704053) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:31644)

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Abstract

This article looks at the ways in which early films, as much as photography and colonial exhibitions, transported the spectators to a version of India existing in great part as the creation of unchecked British imagination. Late Victorians and Edwardians stepped into this exotic world through different media, and cinematic exposure to the East would soon dominate visual culture and consolidate the East as a product of European imagination.It investigates the ways in which at the end of the so-called long nineteenth century a very Victorian passion for geographical spectacle migrated to early films of urban spaces in colonized territories, and reassess the part played by early films in the imperial project by investigating the cinematic image of Indian cities between 1895 and 1914.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/08905491003704053
Uncontrolled keywords: India; Early Film city; Benares; Varanasi; Delhi
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D203 Modern History, 1453-
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Funders: [UNSPECIFIED] AHRC
Depositing User: Maurizio Cinquegrani
Date Deposited: 12 Oct 2012 13:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31644 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Cinquegrani, Maurizio.

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