<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear friends</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please come to this presentation by Dr Anand Pandian from Johns Hopkins University hosted by the Sydney South Asia Seminar Group/Trans/forming Cultures Research Centre. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I would also be grateful if you could pass it along through your networks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Devleena</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Day Friday</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date 20th June</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Time 6 pm</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Venue UTS Bldg3, rm210, enter via 755 Harris St</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13.3px/normal Courier New; min-height: 15px; "><BR></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FC2245" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Framing Feelings: Landscapes of Affect in South Indian Cinema</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FC2245" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Cinema is one of the most influential cultural technologies of displacement in the contemporary world, readily transporting its viewers to imagined places other than their own. This paper explores the affective resonances of such imaginative displacement in the Tamil commercial film industry of south India. Insistent projections of Tamil cultural identity as an artifact of regional custom and local environments in this film industry have given way in recent years to a globalization of filmic production and shooting locale. This paper relies upon ethnographic fieldwork conducted on location with three different Tamil film crews working to shoot both song and scene sequences in Malaysia, Singapore, and Dubai. I focus on the cinematic techniques through which directors, cinematographers, and art, music, and dance directors work to produce moving and powerful frames and shots. Of particular concern is their manipulation of the tangible qualities of filmic landscape, setting, or mise-en-scene as a means of intensifying feeling among their projected audiences. Focusing on the production and circulation of feelings such as anticipation, joy, and desire through material cinematic practices, the paper suggests that Indian filmmakers now traverse the globe in pursuit of purified environments for affective expression.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13.3px/normal Arial; color: rgb(0, 40, 128); min-height: 15px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002880"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Anand Pandian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his PhD in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. His research work concerns questions of modernity, ethics, and aesthetics in south India. His Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India (forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2009) examines the moral and ethical stakes of agrarian development in postcolonial India. A second research project now underway concerns imaginations of locality, practices of cinematic setting, and the production of affect in the Tamil-language commercial cinema of south India. He has published articles in American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, the Indian Economic and Social History Review, and several other scholarly journals and edited collections, and has co-edited Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (Duke University Press, 2003).</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times New Roman; min-height: 18px; "><BR></DIV><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002880" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002880" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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