For Further Information Contact:

Dr. Arya Aiyappan Convener, National Seminar 2014Email: arya.aiyappan@christuniversity.inMobile: +91 9886656335

Ms. Bhavani S Core Committee Member, National Seminar 2014Email: bhavani.sanjeeviraja@christuniversity.inMobile: +91 9538350488

Department of EnglishChrist University, Bangalore Karnataka, India – 560029Phone: +91-80-4012-9362

Department of English presents

National Seminar

19 - 20 February 2014

a bM ya aza ra

Re-viewing 100 years of Indian cinemas

Advisory CommitteeB.R. Muthu Kumar I.F.S. (Retd.)

K. M. Chaitanya (Kannada Film Director)

T.K Rajeev Kumar (Malayalam Film Director)

Dr. Anup Dhar (Associate Professor, Ambedkar University)

N. Manu Chakravarthy (Film Critic and Associate Professor, NMKRV College)

Cinematic texts are as diverse as the print texts. The language of cinema is different from the language of words with its own grammar and with its own materiality. Indian cinema, our cultural idiom is 100 years old. To mark this milestone, the Department of English at Christ University is organizing a National Seminar, Mayabazaar: Re-viewing 100 years of Indian cinemas on February 19 and 20 in 2014.

Indian cinema has a rich cultural history which remains to-date unparalleled. Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra (1913) inaugurated the Celluloid in India and has reached Digital cinema which looks like the promising candidate of the future. The Seminar will track and critique this momentous journey of Indian cinema, from Celluloid to Digital cinema. It intends to provide the participants with an opportunity to celebrate, assimilate and re-view the rich, dynamic history of Indian cinema. The Seminar will help participants explore and understand the emerging concerns, the potent areas of research and the varied perspectives that have made inroads into Indian Film Studies. Plurality, multiplicity and heterogeneity are the hallmarks of ‘Indian Cinemas’, and the Seminar attempts to undertake both an exploration and an interrogation of the cultural politics embedded in the text.

The Seminar intends to bring together eminent film artistes, filmmakers, critics, academicians and students to the same platform from across the country. A series of Pre-Seminar activities will lead to the grand finale, the National Seminar in February 2014. The Seminar will be a great opportunity to celebrate, participate, discuss and learn the glorious 100 years of Indian cinemas.

MAYABAZAAR: RE-VIEWING 100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMASCHRIST UNIVERSITY

Christ University was established in July 1969 and became the most preferred educational institution in the city of Bangalore within the first three decades. It has the rare distinction of being the first Institution in Karnataka to be accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) UGC for quality education. UGC conferred Autonomy to Christ College in 2004.

Later it became the first College in South India to be re-accredited with A+ by NAAC. UGC identified it as an Institution with Potential for Excellence in June 2006. Under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956, Ministry of Human Resources Development of the Union Government of India declared it a Deemed to be University, in the name and style of Christ University in 2008.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

The Department of English at Christ University is a dynamic and enterprising group of individuals, ready to take on any epistemic challenge and make meaning out of it. As part of the Deanery of Humanities and Social Sciences, this department is truly one with a human face.

For the last three years, the department has organized National Seminars to facilitate knowledge exchange and sharing amongst like-minded intellectuals and subject specialists. This year the department has decided to enter the domain of Film Studies by organizing the National Seminar, Mayabazaar: Re-viewing 100 years of Indian cinemas.

• Mushrooming multiplex culture

• Resurgence of regional cinema

• Experimenting with themes, narratives, genres, acting

and techniques

• Stereotypes – representations or misrepresentations

• Changing identities

• Period films – research and creative license

• Product advertising and film merchandise

• Documentary – reframing reality

• Socio-cultural histories and imaginaries

• Technology of projection and distribution

• Celluloid to digital – demystification of cinema

• Visual sensibility and spectatorship

• Censorship

• Literature and cinema – bridging the gap

• Cinematographer as co-author

• Web Television

• De-colouration of film festivals

• Script bank and copyrights

• Campus films and media schools

• A new masters breed

ABSTRACT AND PAPERS

Submission of Abstract – 30 September 2013Word limit of Abstract – 150 - 250 wordsApproval of Abstract – 15 October 2013

Submission of the first draft of the paper – 1 December 2013Last date to submit the final paper – 1 January 2014

Select papers will be published with an ISBN number

REGISTRATION

Participant students from other Colleges and Universities –Rs 500 (includes seminar kit, tea and working lunch)

Presenters and other participants (research scholars and faculty) – Rs 1200 (includes seminar kit, tea and lunch)

PAYMENT DETAILS

DD drawn in favour of ‘Christ University’ payable at Bangalore

For further details visit our website:

www.christuniversity.in/mayabazaar

Send your papers/queries to:

mayabazaar@seminar.christuniversity.in

The broad area for your papers based on Indian cinemacan be drawn from the topics listed below: