[Reader-list] [Announcements] URBAN ALLEGORIES: The City in Bombay Cinema - Lecture by Ranjani Mazumdar

[Aarti Sethi]

Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM), University of
Westminster

 PUBLIC LECTURE



*URBAN ALLEGORIES: The City in Bombay Cinema*

Dr Ranjani Mazumdar

British Academy/ESRC Visiting Fellow at University of Westminster

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies

School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
India.

Thursday 31st May, 6.15pm

The Old Cinema, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW
Chair: Rosie Thomas, Director of Centre for Research and Education in Arts
and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster.

You are invited to a lecture by Dr Ranjani Mazumdar to inaugurate her
British Academy/ESRC Visiting Fellowship at the University of Westminster
and also to launch her book* Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the
City*published this month by University of Minnesota Press:
Minneapolis and
London.   There will be a drinks reception afterwards.  All welcome.

Cinema is not only a major Industry in India, it is a powerful cultural
force. But until now, no one has undertaken a major examination of the ways
in which films made in Bombay mediate the urban experience in India. In her
analysis of the cinematic city, Ranjani Mazumdar reveals a complex
postnationalist world, convulsed by the social crisis of the 1970s and
transformed by the experience of globalisation in the 1990s. Her account
leads us into the heart of the urban labyrinth in India, revising and
deepening our understanding of both the city and the cinema.

 For further details please contact Ranita Chatterjee at CREAM:
R.Chatterjee at westminster.ac.uk


 ALL WELCOME
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