Category: Independence

  • Gender, Nation and Decolonisation in Indian Cinema, 1947-1975

    Gender, Nation and Decolonisation in Indian Cinema, 1947-1975

    Lucy Inskip Cinema can help us to trace the process of decolonisation after 1947 in India. The direction of Indian cinema changed not only with independence but also in the decades that followed, while India’s post-independence modernity project wavered, especially during the cynicism and extra-parliamentary challenge of the 1970s. Whilst political commentary by cultural producers…