Author: "Nitin P. Govil" <[log in to unmask]> Date: 12/14/94 7:20 PM [Editor's note: This message was submitted to SCREEN-L by the "Author" noted above, and not by Jeremy Butler ([log in to unmask]).] Birgit-- You may be interested in the getting-published-as-we-speak _Encylopedia of Indian Cinema_, edited by Ashish Rajadhyaksha and Paul Willemen from Indiana University Press. In any case, I'm currently working on the "uses of the National" in (what Pradip Krishen calls) indian "parallel cinema", particularly Shyam Benigal's 1970s cycle of "rural" films (_Ankur_, _Nishant_, and _Manthaan_). He gave a talk at the Smithsonian in April, in which he used subalternity as a mask for the "contradictions" in mainstream (Bollywood) indian cinema and localized film practices--and its the problems with his methods of address that i'm particularly interested in. Paul Willemen's "The National" (in _Looks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory_ (BFI (Indiana), 1994) is a fine treatment of the problems of the "national" in film studies--you may want to check it out. best, nitin govil