hello all- below is the schedule for the upcoming Indian Cinema conference at NYU - apologies for cross postings. cheers nitin ___________ The Social & Material Life of Indian Cinema An International Conference Organized By The Department of Cinema Studies Tisch School of the Arts New York University 20th -23rd April, 2006 Juan Carlos Center, New York University 19 University Place Asia Society Sundaram Tagore Gallery Conference Committee: Richard Allen, Ranjani Mazumdar, Aparna John Conference Program Day 1: Thursday April 20th 9.00 – 4.00 Conference Registration 10.00 Opening Remarks: Chris Straayer, Chair, Cinema Studies 10.15 Introduction: Ranjani Mazumdar Session 1 (10.30 – 12.45)Economies of Production & Control Chair/Discussant – Dana Polan 10.30: Priya Jaikumar “Witness and Evidence: The Investigative Mode of the 1927-28 Cinematograph Interviews”. 11.00: Shohini Ghosh “Fear of the Queer and All Things Erotic: Censorship Debates and Emergent Narratives” 11.30: Rachel Dwyer “Falling Stars and Rising Producers: Charisma and Control in the Hindi Film World” Response & Discussion: 12.00 – 12.45 LUNCH 12.45 – 2.00 Session 2 (2.00-5.00)The Film Industry & the State Chair/Discussant - Robert Sklar 2.00: Ashish Rajadhyaksha “Surviving the State: The Curious Case of Bombay's Hindi Film Industry” 2.30: Ravi Vasudevan “A Cinema for the Nation: state planning and film practices in India after Independence”. 3.00: Tejaswini Ganti “Blockbusters and Bombs at the Box-Office: The Bombay Film Industry and the Cultural Logics of Commercial Success" 3.30: Nitin Govil “Informality, Industry, and the Permanency of Crisis” Response & Discussion: 4.00-5.00 6.00 Keynote Address at Asia Society 725 park Avenue (at 70th Street) Professor Partha Chatterjee “Film & the Critique of Popular Culture” Introduced by Mary Schmidt Campbell Dean, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Reception: 7.30 – 8.30 Day 2 Friday, April 21st Session 3 (10.00 – 12.15) Film in Colonial India Chair/Discussant – Jonathan Kahana 10.00: Neepa Majumdar “Film Fragments, Documentary History, and Colonial Indian Cinema” 10.30: Sudhir Mahadevan “Images and Ownership in Colonial India: A Research Report” 11.00: Manishita Das “Outside the Lettered City: Imagining the Mass Audience in 1920s India” Response & Discussion: 11.30 – 12.15 LUNCH BREAK: 12.15 – 2.00 Session 4 (2.00 – 5.00)Melodrama & Other Rhetorical Forms of Indian Cinema Chair/Discussant – Richard Allen 2:00 : Moinak Biswas “Invasion of Reality: Forms and Exposures in the Fifties” 2.30: Corey Creekmur “Guru Dutt and the Indian Melodramatic Imagination” 3.00: Bhaskar Sarkar “The National Mise-En-Abyme” 3.30: Ira Bhaskar “Trauma, Melodrama and the Production of Historical Affect” 4.00 – 5.00 p.m. - Response & Discussion: 6.00 : Reception at Sundaram Tagore Gallery 547 West 27th Street, Chelsea Includes screening of Mira Nair’s documentary short The Laughing Clubs of India (2000) at 7:00 p.m. Day 3 Saturday, April 22nd 19 University Place, Room 101 Session 5 (9.30 – 12.30) Practitioners of the Indian New Wave Chair/Discussant – Richard Pena 9.30: a.m.: Suranjan Ganguly “Adoor Gopalakrishnan and the Rhetoric of Otherness” 10.00: Aparna John “Dividing the Indian New Wave: Some reflections on the Avant-Garde sensibility in Indian Cinema" 10.30: Sumita Chakravarty “India’s New Cinema: Towards a Genealogy of the Transnational” 11.00: Parag Amaladi “Mani Kaul’s Place in the Indian New Wave” Response & Discussion: 11.30 – 12.30 Lunch: 12.30 – 2.00 LUNCH 12.30-2.00 Screenings at the Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street) 2.00 Herbert (2005) directed by Suman Mukhopdhyay 7.00 Parzania (2005) directed by Rahul Dholakia Day 4 Sunday April 23rdSession 6 (10.00 – 12.30) Early Studio ProductionsChair/Discussant – Ashis Rajadhyaksha 10.00 a.m.: Rashmi Doraiswamy “The Ontology of the Performative Image: The Saint-Poet Films of Prabhat” 10.30 a.m: Kaushik Bhowmick “The Beginnings of the Cultural Holocaust: The Hindu Reform of Bombay Cinema,c.1936” 11.00 a.m: Rosie Thomas “Fearless Nadia and the Wadia Movietone/Basant Pictures” Response & Discussion: 11.30 a.m. -12.30 a.m. LUNCH 12.30-2.00 Session 7 (2.00 – 4.30)Fringe & Other Cinemas of the Multiplex Era Chair/Discussant – Anna McCarthy 2.00: Madhava Prasad “Contemporary Indian Cinema and the Problem of the Culturally Backward Spectator” 2.30: Lalitha Gopalan “Rethinking the Past at the Multiplexes” 3.00: Ranjani Mazumdar “The Fringe City of Women at the Multiplex” Response & Discussion: 3.30 – 4.30 Tea Break: 4.30 – 5.00 Closing Session (5.00 – 7.00) History, Nationhood and the Question of National Cinema An Interdisciplinary Panel Chair: Arvind Rajagopal Panelists: Phillip Lutgendorf (Literature), Gyan Prakash (Historian), Jyotika Virdi (film Studies). Panelists will speak for 20 minutes each and then open out for a discussion) 7.00 Concluding Remarks: Richard Allen ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]