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September 29, 2010
Film, Form, and
Spectatorship in
Indian Cinema
Wednesday,
September 29,
6:15PM
NYU Tisch School
of the Arts
721 Broadway, 6th
Floor, Michelson
Theater
This event is
free and open to
the public.
Guest Speaker
RAVI VASUDEVAN
The Melodramatic
Public: Film
Form and
Spectatorship in
Indian Cinema
This
presentation
considers the
contrary uses of
melodrama in
film and
cultural studies
as it has
developed in
different
contexts and
film-theoretical
moments. It
explores the
differences
which have
opened up
between
historical usage
and
film-critical
interventions,
and the changing
significance
accrued in the
movement of the
category outside
its original
Euro-American
setting. Drawing
on instances
from Indian and
US cinema in
particular, it
seeks to recover
the power and
productivity of
the term in
relation to the
public and
political
functions it
carries.
Ravi Vasudevan
works at the
Centre for the
Study of
Developing
Societies,
Delhi, and is a
co-initiator of
Sarai, the
Centre’s urban
and media
studies
programme. He
has taught Film
Studies at
universities in
India and the
USA, and is
guest faculty at
the Department
of Film Studies,
Jadavpur
University, and
the School of
Arts and
Aesthetics,
Jawaharlal Nehru
University.
Vasudevan is on
the editorial
advisory board
of Screen,
has edited
Making Meaning
in Indian Cinema
(OUP,
2000) and
co-edited
Sarai Reader 02:
the cities of
everyday life
(2002). He is
co-founder of
BioScope, a
new journal of
South Asian
screen studies
and has recently
completed The
Melodramatic
Public: Film
Form and
Spectatorship in
Indian Cinema
(Ranikhet,
Permanent Black,
and Palgrave
Macmillan,
2010).
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