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LAUSANNE SUMMER SCHOOL<br />

CACS <strong>EPFL</strong><br />

Thursday 25 July<br />

Cricket and Cinema<br />

09:00 >13:00 Cinema, cricket, and popular culture in contemporary India<br />

gopalan Balachandran<br />

These sessions explore the place of cinema in the popular imaginations of modern<br />

and contemporary India. How did popular cinema express and shape the hopes,<br />

longings, disappointments, and anger of a post-colonial nation? It is a popular<br />

cliché that only cinema and cricket keep India together. How did cricket come to<br />

occupy the role it did in modern India? How do cricket and cinema come together,<br />

and with what results? The readings are merely a starting point for reflections on<br />

cinema and cricket as sites for interventions seeking to express, shape, and perhaps<br />

appropriate the hopes and dreams that a billion people project on their stars<br />

and their work.<br />

13:00 >14:00 Lunch<br />

14:00 >17:00 Cinema, cricket, and popular culture in contemporary India<br />

(continued)<br />

Gopalan Balachandran<br />

Compulsory reading<br />

Vasudevan, R. (2010). “The Contemporary Film Industry – I: The Meanings of ‘Bollywood’” in The Melodramatic<br />

Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 334-361.<br />

Optional reading<br />

Vasudevan, R. (2010). “The Contemporary Film Industry – II: Textual Form, Genre Diversity, and Industrial<br />

Strategies” in The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema, London:<br />

Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 362-397.<br />

Nandy, A. (2007). “The Wistful Camel and the Eye of the Needle” and “Victory, Defeat and the Future of<br />

the Savage” in The Tao of Cricket: On Games of Destiny and Destiny of Games, chapters 2 and 3, Delhi:<br />

Oxford University Press, pp. 52-89 and 90-122.<br />

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