Where histories reside: India as filmed space: PRIYA JAIKUMAR, 2019, durham and london, duke university press, pp. xv + 397, illus., bibliography, index, and appendix, $109.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper).

Beginning with a promise of realizing a spatial critique in film studies, this book contributes to the spatial turn in film studies.It discusses a variety of issues using space as an entry point: cinematic space, place images, institutional and pre-production contexts and their afterlives. The book broadly uses colonial films, Hindi cinema and Bengali films in constituting India as a filmed space; a clarification to this end would have been useful. [Extracted from the article]