From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Mon Oct 16 00:17:03 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:17:03 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] Film on Tuesday
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We may have to turn on the subtitles for those who don't understand
Hindustani. 


S.K.

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 23:31 -0400, Nithya Varsha Raman wrote:
> Are these subtitled? My non-Hindi speaker friend might want to come.
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at MIT.EDU>:
> 
> > So CID it is then. It is one of my favourites for two, very personal
> > reasons: 1. my maternal grandfather was the chief secretary to the
> > Bombay CID Special Branch between 1955-1959, when the film was made; 2.
> > the name of the main protagonist, played by Dev Anand, is "Inspector
> > Shekhar". I love Dev Anand!
> >
> > We should add Parinda to the list, Nayakan is already there. But I'm
> > partial to doing these semi-chronologically.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Shekhar
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 21:50 -0400, Michael Fischer wrote:
> >> I'd vote for CID, though of course Awaara is great -- and maybe we
> >> should do the trio of Awaara to Zangir.   What about also Vidhu
> >> Chopra's Parinda, and  Mani Ratnam's Nayakan.  I know these are a
> >> little later than your period, but I have a sense that they would
> >> work nicely as a contrast set.   Also there's the thriller by Sudhir
> >> Misra the name of which I forget now (as well as his Dharavi).
> >>
> >>
> >> >Dear All:
> >> >
> >> >As I mentioned last week, one of the ideas with which we began the group
> >> >last year was to watch films which help us think through the social and
> >> >political spaces of the city, and the moral negotiation of urban space
> >> >in popular cinema narratives. I had put together a list of Hindi films
> >> >which explore the figure of the urban migrant, criminal investigator,
> >> >policeman, gangster and terrorist over the past fifty years in Bombay
> >> >cinema. See:
> >> >
> >> >http://urban.media.mit.edu/wiki/Urban_Criminal_and_Terrorist_in_Hindi_Cinema
> >> >
> >> >Mike and Eric and I plan to meet this TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER at 7.00 P.M. to
> >> >inaugurate this film seminar series, alongside our regular sessions of
> >> >the reading group. We will screen either CID (dir. Raj Khosla, 1956) or
> >> >Awaara (dir. Raj Kapoor, 1951). The screening will be held at MIT, or if
> >> >we cannot get a room and projector at short notice there, we will do it
> >> >at the group "annexe" at 96 West Cedar Street in Beacon Hill. Please
> >> >join us for this film seminar and bring your friends!
> >> >
> >> >Best,
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >S.K.
> >> >--
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> >> >New York, NY 10027
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> >> >
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From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Tue Oct 17 03:11:43 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:11:43 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] C.I.D. Today
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Dear All:

We will meet for a screening of the film C.I.D. (1956) today, TUESDAY 17
OCTOBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) at 7.00
p.m. See you this evening and feel free to bring friends. 

Best, 


S.K.
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
353, Massachusetts Avenue, Apt.5H
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.

http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
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From svati.shah at nyu.edu  Tue Oct 17 09:53:15 2006
From: svati.shah at nyu.edu (Svati P Shah)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:53:15 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] C.I.D. Today
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enjoy!

I happily ripped a CD yesterday morning, comp went to sleep during the
day, and I copied it to my Ipod today.  My life is changed!!!

sva

----- Original Message -----
From: Shekhar Krishnan <shekhar at mit.edu>
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:11 am
Subject: [Urban-Media] C.I.D. Today

> Dear All:
> 
> We will meet for a screening of the film C.I.D. (1956) today, 
> TUESDAY 17
> OCTOBER in MIT Building E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) at 7.00
> p.m. See you this evening and feel free to bring friends. 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> 
> S.K.
> -- 
> 
> Shekhar Krishnan
> 353, Massachusetts Avenue, Apt.5H
> Cambridge, MA 02139
> U.S.A.
> 
> http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
> http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar
> http://www.goosebumpgraphics.org
> 
> ---
> 
> MIT Urban Media Mailing List
> 
> http://urban.media.mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urban-media
> 


From shekhar at MIT.EDU  Wed Oct 18 23:06:30 2006
From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (shekhar@MIT.EDU)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:06:30 -0400
Subject: [Urban-Media] 10.31.06: Colonial Suburbanization
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Dear All:

We will meet for our next session on TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER in MIT Building
E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. to discuss
these texts on suburbanization in India, Europe and the U.S.:

Nikhil Rao, "An Indian Suburbia", chapter 1 from dissertation in the
Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/rao_indian_suburbia.pdf

Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New
York: Basic Books, 1987.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/fishman_bourgeois_utopias.pdf

The first text will be the basis for the discussion. Next week, Nikhil
will also circulate a shorter conference paper from a talk he will be
giving at the South Asia Conference in Madison this weekend. I will also
send an additional text, Kenneth Jackson's Crabgrass Frontier: The
Suburbanization of the United States.

Also, I will order vegetarian meals from the Guru for everyone around
6.45 p.m. in the STS Reading Room -- six meals for myself, Mike, Eric,
Nikhil, Ilham, and Nithya. Let me know if you DON'T want food.

Best,


Shekhar
-- 

Shekhar Krishnan
353, Massachusetts Avenue, Apt.5H
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.

http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar
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