[Reader-list] Fwd: CFP: Wide Screen A Century of Indian Cinema

[Kuhu Tanvir]

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From: Kuhu Tanvir <kuhutanvir at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Subject: CFP: Wide Screen A Century of Indian Cinema
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*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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http://twitter.com/widescreen2009