November 9, 2015 – Film Screening: “An American in Madras”

Documentary Film by Karan Bali

Monday, November 9, 2015
Bryn Mawr College
Thomas Library 224
4:30 PM

Discussion with the filmmaker and refreshments following the film.

Tracing the career of American director Ellis Dungan in the Madras film studios in the 1930s and 40s, Mumbai-based filmmaker Karan Bali explores the fascinating cross-cultural encounter at the heart of the formative years of sound cinema in South India.

Co-sponsored by the Bryn Mawr College Program in Film Studies, Department of Anthropology and the Center for Visual Culture.

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