Two-day Conference on Indian Cinema and the City
3
–
4
November
2011
Organized
By
Chao
Center
for
Asian
Studies,
Rice
University
Cinema Space
proposes
to
bring
together
scholars
working
on
Indian
cinema
in
an
attempt
to
refocus structuring
of
the
cinematic
city
will
be
the
organizing
thread
of
the
conference.
The
city
here
is
understood
as
a
place holder
for
bringing
together
and
delineating
concerns
of
aesthetics,
technology,
modernity
and
development.
In
the
last
decade,
with
the
emergence
of
a
globalized
cultural
industry
that
has
been
termed
Bollywood’,
a
segment
of
Indian
cinema
has
been
receiving
much
attention
in
Western
academia
both
in such
as
song‐dance
sequences
and
complex
plot
lines
that
were
seen
as
hindrances
to
the
appeal
of
Indian focus
on
this
cultural
value
of
‘Bollywood’
and
its
critique
based
on
the
argument
of
multiplicity
of
cinemas
in
India
(or
regional
cinemas
as
they
are
called)
continues
to
read
aesthetics
as
cultural
difference.
This
takes
attention
away
from
cinema’s
specificity
as
a
techno‐aesthetic,
which
has
salience
across
regional/national
particularities.
This
move
away
from
particularities
cannot
be
‘post‐’
or
‘pre‐’,
but
is
grounded
on
the
national
itself,
hence
the
focus
in
this
conference
on
one
national
cinema.
The
conference
attempts
to
initiate
new
conversations
between
papers
that
address
the
aesthetics
and
narrative
forms
of
Indian
cinema
from
different
standpoints.
The
different
axes
around
which
city
space
is
organized
in
India n
cinema
within,
without
and
at
the
edges of
the
diegetic
frame
will
be
of
interest.
It
proposes
to
think
through
the
production
of
space
in
Indian
cinema
as
linked
to
cinematic
and
other
art
practices
in
other
parts
of
the
world
with
which
it
ha s
been
in
constant
contact.
These from
its
inception.
The
imagining
of
the
cinematic
city
is
a
significant
thematic
that
will
allow
us
to
think
through
the
structuring
of
space
in
Indian
cinema
outside
culturalist
assumptions,
and
to
help
us
understand
its
aesthetic
practice
as
historical
and
internationalist
at
the
same
time.
For
analytic
purposes,
the
conference
would
propose
to
bracket
off
the
understanding
of
cinema
as
a
space
of
representation
to
focus
on
the
aesthetic
concerns
governing
it.
Rather
than
cinema
being
a
space
through
which
one
finds
traces
of
real
cities,
the
conference
attempts
to
think
of
space
of
the
city
in
cinema
as
a
frame
of
intelligibility.
The
questions
that
the
conference
will
address
include,
but
are
not
limited
to:
The
aesthetic
of
cinematic
city
City,
modernity
and
the
film
frame
Internationalisms
and
the
cinematic
city
Realism,
melodrama
and
the city
Trajectories
of
film
aesthetics
beyond
the
nation
Film
State
formations,
film
policy
Prof.
Moinak
Biswas ,
Department
of
Film
Studies,
Jadhavpur
University,
Kolkata
(India)
will
give
the
Abstracts
of
not
more
than
500
words
along
with
a
short
bio‐note
should
be
sent
to
Ratheesh
Radhakrishnan
at
rr16 AT rice DOT edu
latest
by
April
10,
2011.
Emails
should
have
“film
conference”
as
its
subject
line.
Acceptance
notifications
will
be
sent
by
April
25,
2011.
The
Chao
Center
will
be
happy
to
host
the
selected
scholars
in
Houston
for
the
duration
of
the
conference,
but
will
be
unable
to
cover
Selected
workshop
proceedings
will
be
submitted
for
publication
consideration
as
a
special
journal
issue
Inclusion
in
the
proposed
special
number
is
subject
to
a
provisional
review
process;
acceptance
and
publication
For
future
updates
on
the
conference:
http://chaocenter.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=650
Ratheesh
Radhakrishnan
Post doctoral
Fellow
Rice
Houston,
TX
77005
USA
rr16@rice.edu
http://asia.rice.edu
No comments:
Post a Comment