Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2013

Keywords

Early cinema in South Asia, early cinema in the Middle East, Domitor, FIAF

Abstract

The authors included in this dossier, Early Cinema in South Asia: The Problem of the Archive, initially grouped as a panel for The Society of Cinema and Media Studies 2013 conference, address the need for more specific methods of conducting research on early cinema in South Asia, but they also reveal broader historiographical imperatives for all of us working with similar archival challenges. Indeed,one of the benefits of dossiers such as this is that they operate in multiple registers at once. They sharpen focus on a specific field at the same time that they address methodological questions that speak across specializations. Academic publishing does not always adequately document these exchanges across fields, which occur so often in panel discussions and workshops. I can attest to this personally, as each of the four contributors has influenced my projects on early cinema in the Middle East far more than it is usually possible to acknowledge. My aim here is to help demonstrate the adaptability of their contributions by providing a few points from a neighboring field.

Publication Title

Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media

Volume

54

Issue

2

First Page

131

Last Page

134

Required Publisher's Statement

Copyright 2013 Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan 48201-1309

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Motion pictures--South Asia--History

Geographic Coverage

South Asia

Genre/Form

articles

Type

Text

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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