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| Framegrab image of early action heroine "Fearless" Nadia (née Mary Ann Evans) in Miss Frontier Mail (Homi Wadia, 1936). Read Rosie Thomas's 2007 article on this film. |
Today, Film Studies For Free focuses on, and links to, some remarkable film and digital media studies essays commissioned and edited by the Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.
The Sarai Programme was initiated in 2000 by a group consisting of internationally renowned cinema scholar Ravi S. Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram (both fellows at CSDS) and the members of the Raqs Media Collective (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta), a Delhi based group of media practitioners, documentarists, artists and writers.
Sarai's mission is to act as a platform for discursive and creative collaboration between theorists, researchers, practitioners and artists actively engaged in reflecting on contemporary urban spaces and cultures in South Asia. Its areas of interests include media research and theory, the urban experience in South Asia: history, environment, culture, architecture and politics, new and established media practices, media history, cinema, contemporary art, digital culture, the history and politics of technology, visual/technological cultures, free and open source software, social usage of software, the politics of information and communication, online communities and web-based practices.The below collection of articles -- painstakingly drawn from the numerous, openly accessible Sarai Readers produced by the collective -- reflect the above interests, but have been curated here by FSFF because of their particular, potential relevance to scholars of cinema and related moving image and digital media studies.
- Rehan Ansari, 'On Mushtaq Gazdar's "History of Pakistani Cinema"’, Sarai Reader 2001: The Public Domain
- Kaushik Bhaumik, 'Fear in Neo-Kaliyuga Epistemic Troubles in Techno-Smrti Times', Sarai reader 08: Fear
- Franco La Cecla, Stefano Savona and Piero Zanini, 'Light from the Box', Sarai Reader 2006: Turbulence
- Saayan Chattopadhyay, 'Framing Frontiers: The Suspended Step towards Visual Construction of Geopolitical Borders', Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers
- Keti Chukhrov, 'Glamour as a Form of Culture in Post-Soviet Russia', Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers
- Rana Dasgupta, 'Beyond the Apocalypse: An Unfinished Meditation on Ethics', Sarai Reader 2003: Shaping Technologies
- Tushar Dhara, 'The Khushboo Case File: Reverse Culture Jamming', Sarai Reader 2006: Turbulence
- Deb Kamal Ganguly, 'Pixels of Memory on the Hypertextualised 'I’', Sarai Reader 2006: Turbulence
- Shohini Ghosh, 'Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Nanna Heidenreich and Nicole Wolf, 'Conversation on Locating Conflict', Sarai Reader 08: Fear
- Menso Heus, 'Innovating Piracy: The Bare Act of Stealing, and Shaping the Future', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Hikari Hori, 'Representing a Woman’s Story: Explicit Film and the Efficacy of Censorship in Japan', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Lawrence Liang, 'Porous Legalities and Avenues of Participation', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Geert Lovink, 'Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance: Interview with Jill Magid', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Geert Lovink, 'The Typewriter of the Illiterate: Interview with János Sugár', Sarai Reader 2003: Shaping Technologies
- Kristian Lukic, 'Let us Become Children! Training, Simulations and Kids', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Lev Manovich, 'New Media: A User’s Guide', Sarai Reader 2001: The Public Domain
- Ranjani Mazumdar, 'Cracks in the Urban Frame The Visual Politics of 9/11', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Ranjani Mazumdar, 'Ruin And The Uncanny City Memory, despair and death in Parinda', Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life
- Media Researchers @ Sarai, 'Complicating the City: Media Itineraries', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Rahul Mukherjee, 'A Reply to Terrorism on a Wednesday: A Citizen Vigilante’s Prescriptions for Governing Terrorism', Sarai Reader 08: Fear
- Batul Mukhtiar, 'Journey through a Disaster: A Filmmaker’s Account of the Gujarat Earthquake, 2001', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Kartik Nair, 'Fear on Film The Ramsay Brothers and Bombay’s Horror Cinema', Sarai Reader 08: Fear
- Sandhya Devesan Nambiar, 'Factoring Fear: Investigations into Media(ted) Fear', Sarai Reader 08: Fear
- Warren Neidich, 'The Neurobiopolitics of Global Consciousness', Sarai Reader 2006: Turbulence
- Matteo Pasquinelli, 'Warporn Warpunk! Autonomous Videopoesis in Wartime', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Manuel Ramos Martínez, 'Betrayed Borders: Double Agents and the Crisscrossing of Conflicts', Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers
- Pooja Rangan, 'Transitions, Transactions: Bollywood As a Signifying Practice', Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers
- Raqs Media Collective, 'Dreams and Disguises, As Usual [on Fantômas]', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Janko Röttgers, 'P2P: Power to the People', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Chandak Sengoopta, 'Art without Frontiers? Satyajit Ray and the Constraints of Universality', Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers
- Debjani Sengupta, 'Mechanicalcutta: Industrialisation, new media in the 19th century', Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life
- Bhrigupati Singh, 'Screening Injustice: Race, violence and media flows', Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life
- Radhika Subramaniam, 'Urban Physiognomies', Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life
- Ravi Sundaram, 'Recycling Modernity: Pirate electronic cultures in India', Sarai Reader 2001: The Public Domain
- Anand Vivek Taneja, 'Begum Samru and the Security Guard', Sarai Reader 2005: Bare Acts
- Kuhu Tanvir, 'Myth, Legend, Conspiracy Urban Terror in Aamir and Delhi-6', Sarai Reader 08: Fear
- Hansa Thapliyal, 'Evictions - Projections Watching Dharmendra in Suburban Lagos', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Rosie Thomas, 'Miss Frontier Mail: The Film That Mistook Its Star for a Train', Sarai Reader 2007: Frontiers
- Ravi S. Vasudevan, 'An Imperfect Public Cinema and citizenship in the "third world"', Sarai Reader 2001: The Public Domain
- Ravi S. Vasudevan, 'The Exhilaration Of Dread Genre, narrative form and film style in contemporary urban action films', Sarai Reader 2002: The Cities of Everyday Life
- Ravi Vasudevan, 'Disreputable and Illegal Publics Cinematic Allegories in Times of Crisis', Sarai Reader 2004: Crisis/Media
- Slavoj Žižek in conversation with Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 'From Anxiety to Enthusiasm', Sarai Reader 08: Fear
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This is an awesome new year gift! Thanks Catherine!
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