[Reader-list] Summer Course: Film and Historical Imagination/ JB Media Resource Centre, Jamia

[Iram Ghufran]

JAMES BEVERIDGE MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE

AJK Mass Communication Research Centre

Jamia Millia Islamia

New Delhi 110025



SUMMER COURSE: FILM AND THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION



Course instructor: Ranjani Mazumdar, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies,

School of Arts & Aesthetics, JNU

July 27 – August 7, 2009


CALL FOR APPLICATIONS



The JB MRC invites applications from graduate students, teachers, media 
researchers and practitioners for a two-week long theory course titled 
“Film and the Historical Imagination”



Course Description:

Film is an archive of sensations, of emotions, of images and of sounds. 
As a powerful recorder of life and its events, Film lends itself to 
organizing not just historical knowledge but also commenting on the 
nature of historical narration. This two week introductory course on 
Film and the Historical Imagination will map the specific ways in which 
history and ideas about the past get constructed through the medium of 
cinema. Issues related to questions of evidence, memory, historical 
catastrophe, nostalgia, myth and heritage will be discussed and analyzed 
in relation to world cinema. The course is structured in the form of 
five illustrated lectures, followed by five full length screenings. The 
course will conclude with a round table discussion with all 
participants. A set of key essays will be provided in the form of a 
reader. The timings of the session will be 11 am to 5 pm every alternate 
day of the week, excluding weekends.



Ranjani Mazumdar is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the School 
of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications 
and films focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the 
cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: Archive of the City 
which was co published by the University of Minnesota Press and 
Permanent Black, 2007. She is currently co-authoring a book on the 
Contemporary Film Industry. Her current research interests include the 
cinema of the 1960s, Globalization and Film Culture, and Film and History.



To apply: Send your CV and a brief statement (500 words max) outlining 
your interest in attending the course to courses.jbmrc at gmail.com or to 
the Course Coordinator, JB MRC, AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New 
Delhi 110025.

· Last date for applications: July 23, 2009

· Course commencement date: July 27, 2009



Selected applicants will be charged Rs. 650/- as the course fee