Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, Oct 4: The School of Languages and Literature at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University today organised an extension lecture on “Cinema in Postcolonial India with Special Focus on Bombay Cinema” by Prof. Prabhjot Parmar, Professor, Department of English at University of Fraser Valley, Canada.
In her discourse, the eminent professor focused upon the mise-en-scene in Hindi cinema with particular reference to contemporary movies. The insightful conglomeration of films as an academic discipline, theory and its practice was quite beneficial for the students and assisted them in developing a global mindset.
Prof. Parmar has conducted her research into the Indian experience of WWI as part of her post-doctoral research. Her area of specialization includes postcolonial literatures and theory, South Asian literature and cinema, migration and diaspora studies, multicultural Britain and Canada, women’s studies, memory and history, world war and colonial soldiers, modern British fiction.
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