[Reader-list] 23rd Jan - Talk by Prof Richard Allen (Chair, Cinema Studies, NYU) - SAA Auditorium at 5.30 pm / 24th Jan - Talk by Prof Sumita Chakravarty (Prof. Media Studies, the New School, NYC) - SAA Auditorium at 5.30 pm

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The School of Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Invites you to a Talk by
 
Prof. Richard Allen
 
 (Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts,  New York University)
 
On
“The Passion of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination”
At
The SAA Auditorium
On
23rd January, 2014
At
5.30 pm
Tea will be served at 5 pm
 
 
Richard Allen is Professor and Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University.  He is the author of Projecting Illusion(1995), Hitchcock's Romantic Irony (2007) and co-author of  lslamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema (2009). He has also published six anthologies on Film theory and Aesthetics, and the films of Hitchcock.
 
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24th Jan - Talk by Prof Sumita Chakravarty (Prof. Media Studies, the New School, NYC) - SAA Auditorium at 5.30 pm






The School of Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Invites you to a Talk by
 
Prof. Sumita Chakravarty
 
 (Professor and Associate Dean, School of Media Studies, The New School,  New York)
On
“The Future of Migration? Media Epistemologies”
At
The SAA Auditorium
On
24th January, 2014  
At
5.30 pm
Tea will be served at 5 pm
Sumita Chakravarty is Associate Dean of the School of Media Studies at The New School in New York. She is the author ofNational Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987 (Univ of Texas Press 1993; OUP 1996); The Enemy Within (editor, 2000) and several articles in journals and anthologies. Most recently, she has written on the global stardom of Shah Rukh Khan. She is currently working on a book with the working title, Unsettled States: Towards a Media History of Immigration. Her research interests include media and globalization, film and national identity, and the history and philosophy of media technologies.