Evacuee Cinema: Declaring a Method

ConTrust Research seminar „India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia“

With Salma Siddique

Through the thematic and methodological pivots of the research underpinning Evacuee Cinema, the talk will demonstrate the ways in which this new history of partition and South Asian cinema seeks to make an intervention in its field. Pointing to regional connections across national boundaries, the work asserts that the cinemas of India and Pakistan must be explored in tandem to uncover the legacy of partition for the culture industries of the region, one that is not hewn out of national erasures.

Salma Siddique is the PI of a DFG funded research project “Nitrate Cities:  Spectatorship and Film Experience in Urban South Asia” at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

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