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Rachel Dwyer is Senior Lecturer in Gujarati and Indian Studies at SOAS, University of London and author of All You Want is Money (Cassell, 2000) and All You Need is Love: Sexuality and Romance in Modern India (Verso, 1999)

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Rachel Dwyer is Senior Lecturer in Gujarati and Indian Studies at SOAS, University of London and author of All You Want is Money (Cassell, 2000) and All You Need is Love: Sexuality and Romance in Modern India (Verso, 1999)

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Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas Examines the implications for global film culture of the apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world Consideration given to the transnational dimension of film cultures Discusses the relationship between film culture and soft power in the BRICS countries and the UK The apparent shift in power relations between the developed and developing world, along with the increasing emphasis that national and transnational organisations place on the role of 'soft power' in global foreign policy, has profound implications for global film culture. Focusing primarily on the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this innovative collection examines the diverse and often competing ways the group as a whole engages with film as a medium of artistic expression, and as a 'soft power' resource. The contributors explore the wider implications for world cinema of its members' differing and dynamic positions in the global media landscape, and the book includes a comparative analysis by examining the post-imperial soft power of the UK at the time of Brexit.

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'City of Gold', 'Urbs Prima in Indis', 'Maximum City': no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay. This book, featuring new essays by its finest historians, presents a rich sample of Bombay's palimpsestic pasts. It considers the making of urban communities and spaces, the workings of power and the nationalist makeover of the colonial city. In addressing these themes, the contributors to this volume engage critically with the scholarship of a distinguished historian of this frenetic metropolis. For over five decades, Jim Masselos has brought to life with skill and empathy Bombay's hidden histories. His books and essays have traversed an extraordinarily diverse range of subjects, from the doings of the city's elites to the struggles of its most humble denizens. His pioneering research has opened up new perspectives and inspired those who have followed in his wake. Bombay Before Mumbai is a fitting tribute to Masselos' enduring contribution to South Asian urban history.

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