1st Edition
South Asian Cinemas Widening the Lens
1. 'South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens' (editorial essay), Sara Dickey, Bowdoin College, and Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester.
2. ‘What Is Tamil about Tamil Cinema?’, Stephen Hughes.
3. ‘Mediating Bhojpuriya: Migration, Circulation, and Bhojpuri Cinema’, Katy Hardy, University of Pennsylvania.
4. ‘Bollylite in America’, Priya Joshi, Temple University.
5. ‘The Indian People’s Theater Association (IPTA) on Film: (Con)testing Memory and History in the Bengali Theaterscapes of Ritwik Ghatak’s Komal Gandhar ("E Flat," 1961)’, Erin O’Donnell.
6. ‘Silence and the Uncanny: Partition in the Soundtrack of Khamosh Pani’, Pavitra Sundar.
7. ‘Ladies Queues, "Roadside Romeos," and Balcony Seating: Ethnographic Observations on Women’s Cinema-Going Experiences’, Lakshmi Srinivas.
8. ‘Under India’s Big Umbrella? Bollywood Dance in Nepal’, Sangita Shresthova.
9. ‘An Overview of Contemporary Sri Lankan Cinema: A Photographic Essay’, Abby Robinson (Independent scholar and artist).
Biography
Sara Dickey is Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College, U.S.A. Her research interests include class in urban India, and Tamil film-watching, cinema, and politics. She is author of Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India and co-editor of Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia.
Rajinder Dudrah is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. He has researched and published widely in film, media and cultural studies in international journals. His books include Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies and Bhangra: Birmingham and Beyond.
