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The Martyr, the Moviegoer: Bhagat Singh at the Movies

J. Daniel Elam (Mellon Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison)

Event Details

Date
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Time
12 p.m.
Location
Description
Bhagat Singh was a major anticolonial figure in north India in the 1920s, as the leader of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA). Elam will explore Singh’s film viewing practices, and how silent cinema influenced his career. Drawing on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Wings — he offers an analysis of Indian anticolonial through the cinema. Consequently, he traces an alternative circuit of thought between North American and South Asia, rooted in film, at the beginning of the 20th century.
Cost
Free

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