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[Veena Hariharan]

The Cinema Studies Stream at the School of Arts and Aesthetics presents

 

BOMBAY NOIR

 

A Talk

By

 

Lalitha Gopalan

 

Tagore Fellow affiliated with the School of Arts and Aesthetics at JNU and an associate professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and affiliate faculty in the Department of Asian Studies and South Asia Institute.

 

Thursday 18th April 2013 at 4 p.m

 

Venue: Room 002, New Building of SAA

Prof. Gopalan hopes that all of you would have seen JOHNNY GADDAR before the talk.

Lalitha Gopalan’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of Film Theory, Feminist Film Theory, Contemporary World Cinemas, Indian Cinema, Genre Films, and Experimental Film and Video.  Her current book project explores various experimental film and video practices in India. She is the author of Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema (London: BFI Publishing, 2002) and Bombay (London: BFI Modern Classics, 2005), and editor of Cinema of India (London: Wallflower Press, 2010). Gopalan currently serves on the editorial boards of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies; Film Quarterly; and BFI Classics.  She has served on several film festival juries and is currently on the advisory board of 3rd I Film Festival, San Francisco.  She recently co-curated the film series Cruel Cinema: New Directions in Tamil Film, which showed at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, BAM cinématek, Northwest Film Forum, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

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Ranjani Mazumdar
Cinema Studies
School of Arts and Aesthetics
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110067