CCS Pinney Thursday 13.Dec.07

Thursday 13th December, 2007
Professor Christopher Pinney
Lessons From Hell: Karma and Governmentality in Popular Indian Imagery

5pm, Goldsmiths Small Hall (Cinema)

Synopsis: "Karni Bharni" images embody the importation of a Jain soteriology into mainstream Hinduism in the late nineteenth century. They depict punishments in hell for moral transgressions and eventually transmute, in the mid-twentieth century, into a parallel genre known as "Ideal Body" which visualise codes of citizenship. The lecture explores the powerful "underneath" of this world of punishment and its role as a visual mode of governmentality.

Christopher Pinney is Visiting Crowe Professor, Department of Art History Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. & Professor of Anthropology & Visual Culture, University College London

This lecture is free and all are welcome. It is organised by the Centre for Cultural Studies in collaboration with the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths

A River Called Titas Tues 4th Dec 07

Titas Ekti Nadir Naam

- our last Ghatak film for this year.



All welcome.


Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Cinema Goldsmiths
City/Town: New Cross, United Kingdom



"Adapted from the Bengali novel by Advaita Malo Barman, A River Called Titas is a thoughtful, sincere, and bittersweet chronicle of poverty, obsolescence, cultural identity and erasure. Ritwik Ghatak characteristically integrates visual economy, stylized camerawork, and idiosyncratic lyricism through allusive, traditional folk songs, cyclical environmental (and existential) phenomena, and exaggerated natural rhythms and diegetic sound"
from - www.filmref.com/