{"id":5393,"date":"2024-11-18T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T10:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reverent-antonelli.23-88-7-78.plesk.page\/veranstaltungen\/realisms-melodrama-and-beyond-in-the-study-of-indian-cinema\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T15:44:22","slug":"realisms-melodrama-and-beyond-in-the-study-of-indian-cinema","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/veranstaltungen\/realisms-melodrama-and-beyond-in-the-study-of-indian-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Realisms, Melodrama, and beyond in the Study of Indian Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>ConTrust Research seminar &#8220;India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With <strong>Meheli Sen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From its very inception, questions of realism and melodrama-broadly understood-have informed studies of Indian cinema. With a few exceptions, critics and scholars have seen these aesthetic and analytical frameworks as hermetically sealed off-aligned to India&#8217;s Art and Popular cinemas respectively. In this seminar we will focus on the porosities and promiscuities between these categories in an exploration both epistemological and historical. An array of so-called &#8220;Art&#8221; and &#8220;Popular&#8221; films will be used as examples, including the works of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Ajay Kar, Tapan Sinha, Manmohan Desai, and Karan Johar.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Meheli Sen<\/strong> is Associate Professor in the department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Cinema Studies program at Rutgers University. She has co-edited <em>Figurations in Indian Film <\/em>(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013), and her book, <em>Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema <\/em>was published in 2017 by The University of Texas Press. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Presented by:<\/strong><br \/>\nGraduate Research Training Group &#8220;Configurations of Film&#8221;, Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM) at Goethe University and Research Initiative &#8220;ConTrust: Trust in Conflict &#8211; Political Life under Conditions of Uncertainty&#8221; at the Research Centre Normative Orders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ConTrust Research seminar &#8220;India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia&#8221; With Meheli Sen From its very inception, questions of realism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[192],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-5393","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tag-seminar-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6406,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5393\/revisions\/6406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}