Room Number: TRS 1-077
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Chair: Asha VaraDharajan (Queens U)
Speakers:
Ajay K Chaubey and Manvi Sharma (National IT Uttarkhand), “The Ecological Face of “Rupture”: Representation of the South Asian Climate Crisis in the Eco-documentaries with special reference to The Weeping Apple and Char… The No Man’s Island”
Seema Jena (New York U), “Notions of Rupture and violations of the Commons with special reference to the film, Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain (2014)”
Agnes Woolley (Birkbeck U), “Re-Orienting the Gaze: Visualising Refugees in Recent Film”
Paper Summaries:
Ajay K Chaubey and Manvi Sharma (National IT Uttarkhand), “The Ecological Face of “Rupture”: Representation of the South Asian Climate Crisis in the Eco-documentaries with special reference to The Weeping Apple and Char… The No Man’s Island”
The present paper is a humble attempt to investigate how both eco-documentaries act as what film scholar Ed Tan describes as “emotion machines”, engaging with viewer’s emotions, as well as raising awareness through the purgation of emotion in the minds of the audiences.
Seema Jena (New York U), “Notions of Rupture and violations of the Commons with special reference to the film, Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain (2014)”
How we as a generation, need to overcome the collective denialism and our resilience to these ruptures and become committed to morally uplifting and urging for a radical restructuring of global power with regard to crisis/ruptures.
Agnes Woolley (Birkbeck U), “Re-Orienting the Gaze: Visualising Refugees in Recent Film”
This paper explores a selection of visual works that together suggest a shifting refugee imaginary, one which tackles head-on the complex optics of the human rights regime and positions refugees as active agents rather than passive objects of pity.