[ecrea] CFP: Wide Screen A Century of Indian Cinema

Call for Papers



Wide Screen Special Issue: A Century of Indian Cinema

Edited by Kartik Nair and Kuhu Tanvir



Indian Cinema: A Hundred Years, A Hundred Cinemas



Indian Cinema has overwhelmingly been thought and written of as the sum 
of its stars, songs, and studios, which come together on-screen in 
melodramas about life and death, love and marriage. For this special 
issue of Wide Screen, we invite papers that prospect the cinematic 
terrain beyond these big-budget, mass-audience, song-and-dance 
spectacles. This is not simply to fill in the blanks of film history, 
but to critically expand our understanding of the diverse practices, 
pleasures, and publics that have constituted ‘cinema’ in the 
subcontinent over the past century.



Contributors are invited to reflect on the many films, filmmakers and 
filmgoers that have participated in (and perhaps even thrived outside) 
the territory of India’s popular cinema(s). This is an opportunity to 
focus on moving images in excess of the hallowed melodramatic mode: 
special-effects driven devotionals, horror films, wrestling pictures and 
revenge thrillers, rape dramas and sex-ed films. Equally, we encourage 
contributions that focus on the material infrastructures through which 
India’s popular cinemas have been made and moved: activities of 
production, circuits of distribution, sites of exhibition, and forms of 
consumption.



Possible topics of interest include (but are not limited to):



    * Film Genres and Film Cycles: student films, insurgency videos, 
propaganda films, newsreels, documentaries, as well as the genres 
mentioned above
    * Cinematic Subcultures Across Regions and Languages
    * Cinematic Afterlives in the Digital Era: Parody, Archive, Tribute 
videos
    * ‘B’ and ‘C’ Grade directors and actors
    * Fan activities and publications
    * Film Criticism: English and Vernacular Presses, Blogs
    * Exhibition: Morning Shows, Video Parlors....
    * The Global Before Globalization: Indian cinema’s transactions 
with international personnel, styles, and audiences





Send paper abstracts (300 words) by 15 December, 2012 to 
(kartiknair /at/ gmail.com) or (kuhutanvir /at/ gmail.com)



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