South Asian Moving Image Special Issue. (MIRAJ - Moving Image Review & Art Journal 7:2 2018)
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University of Winchester
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33LK1
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Intellect Books
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Additional information
- Lucia King’s South East Asian Moving Image, co-edited with Rashmi Sawhney, is a 60,000 word-length, peer-reviewed collection comprising 8 articles. The Special Issue presents the findings of research conducted by a network of South Asian film makers, set up and convened by King with the aim of developing new critical frameworks, and challenging settled narratives, specifically in relation to artists’ moving image in/from South Asia. The materials were curated by King and Sawhney through a series of workshops and events that informed the structure and layout of the issue.
The Issue includes diverse methodologies and perspectives on historicising film-making across disciplines and countries of the region in interrelated strands from the 1960s to 2018. The curatorial aim was to foreground plurality in approaching moving image cultures, abandoning the conjunction of the word ‘contemporary’ solely with ‘art’, in favour of a more complex reading of how time and cultural heterodoxy figure in the everyday lives of people in the region. The articles draw upon interdisciplinary discourses such as science, mythology, literature or philosophy from the region. Together they demonstrate a radical new approach that is significant to film studies in (and from) the global South. At a moment when cultural, linguistic and religious plurality in South Asia is increasingly under threat, the issue connects film making practices to the larger socio-political sphere.
King and Sawhney’s co-authored Introduction provides an overview of these intersectional fields, arguing for a critical practice that integrates centuries-old Muslim and other artistic/spiritual traditions/philosophies. King’s 7000-word article explores the conceptualisation of space, horizon and the void in the work of film-maker R.V. Ramani, assessing Mani Kaul’s theoretical construction in relation to Indian notions of space.
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