[Reader-list] NMML Seminar_Prof. Shohini Ghosh_24 October, 2013, New Delhi

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                  The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library


cordially invitesyou to a Seminar
 
 
at3.00 pm on Thursday, 24 October, 2013
inthe Seminar Room, First Floor, Library Building
 
on
 
                                                          
‘TransfiguredLandscape:
Thespectre of Kashmir and Bombay Cinema’
 
by
 
Prof.Shohini Ghosh,
Jamia MilliaIslamia,
New  Delhi.
 
Abstract:
The brutal unfolding of the violent conflict inKashmir; its representation and reportage hasreconfigured the discursive imagination around the landscape and its people.While images of the picturesque landscape have circulated widely, theinhabitants of Kashmir have been strangelymissing. Bombay cinema has for the longest time,privileged the stunning landscape of Kashmirwhile emptying it of its inhabitants. At the cusp of the 21st century, themissing inhabitants return as militants to haunt the imagination of Bombay cinema catalyzingthereby far-reaching formalist and narrative shifts while at the same time,producing a force field of powerful affects. The spectre of a `resistant’ Kashmir, this presentation will argue, reanimates thecinematic image by inaugurating a `new’ cinema of action, melodrama, sensationand spectacular star bodies. 
 
Speaker:
Prof. Shohini Ghosh is Sajjad ZaheerProfessor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.  She is the author of Fire, A Queer Classic, 2010 and Director of Tales of the Night Fairies, a documentary on the sex-workersmovement for decriminalization.