Tutorial: NN
What does home – whether in India or Pakistan – mean for those who live in what is generally termed the West? Do mainstream Indian films claim the status of cultural 'centre' for its wide-spread overseas 'family' of Non-Resident Indians in Britain and North America? How might this claim be visualized? Relatedly, how have filmmakers 'at home' in these diasporas dealt with their 'imaginary homeland'? We will be looking closely at this contest for centrality over a period of by now 40 years in the course of this seminar.
FILMS:
Purab aur Paschim (East and West 1970)
My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
DDLJ (Braveheart Wins the Bride 1995)
East is East (1999)
My Name is Khan (2010)
Participation
Regular attendance and active participation in all sessions and activities; thorough acquaintance with all the films listed above; individual research on a relevant topic of your choice for short oral presentations / group work, followed by a term paper (7500 words, in MLA format) on a larger research topic. Please check the TAS website under "Your Studies" for further details about oral presentation and essay writing modalities. |
