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[ecrea] Call for Papers -- Indian Cinema

Mon Feb 28 13:14:15 GMT 2011



CALL FOR PAPERS



The India Media Centre, University of Westminster,

In association with the London Indian Film Festival, presents

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

What?s New? The Changing Face of Indian Cinema:

Contemporary and Historical Contexts



Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July 2011

Marylebone Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Invited speakers include

Filmmakers, Anurag Kashyap and Rituparno Ghosh,

Rachel Dwyer, (School of Oriental and African Studies, London),

Shohini Ghosh, (Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi),

Lalitha Gopalan, (University of Texas at Austin).



THE TOPIC

Is mainstream Indian cinema moving into a ?post-Bollywood? era? In recent years a growing number of popular (and not so popular) films made for commercial release have been challenging the conventions of the mainstream multi-genre, song and dance extravaganzas. These films are being made - both within and outside the prevailing studio system - in Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and elsewhere. From Dev D to Just Another Love Story, Udaan or Peepli Live, cinematic language is being explored, songs are disappearing or being used in different ways, and strong alternative storylines are presenting a new face of modern Indian society. These films? hybrid sensibilities are increasingly appealing to the global aspirations of India?s urban ?multiplex? generation.

The London Indian Film Festival was set up in July 2010 to showcase this trend, bringing cutting edge Indian films and filmmakers to London audiences. Alongside this summer?s festival, the India Media Centre at the University of Westminster, in association with the London Indian Film Festival, is hosting a conference that will bring together filmmakers, industry professionals and academics to explore this new phenomenon within both a contemporary and an historical context.

What are these films and why are they emerging now? Are they simply the latest in a long line of such moments in Indian cinema ? from the first song-less Hindi film in 1937, to the Bengali art house movements of the 1950s and 1960s or the so-called parallel and middle cinemas of the 1970s and 1980s, and much besides? What lessons can this history teach us? What, if anything, do these films mean for the future of Indian cinema?

CONFERENCE PAPERS

Papers are invited that explore any aspect of the current and historical challenges to the mainstream form of Indian cinema and its hegemony over the popular cinematic imagination of India and the South Asian diaspora. Papers may deal with film-making in any language and of any era or region, and can include ? but are not restricted to ? the textual, industrial, commercial and reception contexts of films that subvert the mainstream, and/or the critical contexts within which they have been debated.



DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS

The deadline for abstract submission is Thursday 31 March 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by Thursday 21 April, 2011. Abstracts should be 200 words long. They must include the author?s name, affiliation, email and postal address, together with the title of the paper and conference name (What?s New). Please email to Helen Cohen at <mailto:(indiamediaconferences /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>(indiamediaconferences /at/ westminster.ac.uk) .

General enquiries: please contact Daisy Hasan: <mailto:(D.Hasan /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>(D.Hasan /at/ westminster.ac.uk)

Conference team: Rosie Thomas, Daisy Hasan, Radha Dayal, Helen Cohen.





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