Dr. McEwan presents paper at Bollywood film conference
Professor Paul McEwan presented a paper this weekend at an academic conference at the University of Washington in Seattle. The conference, titled “States of Violence: Representations of Conflict in the Film, Fiction, and Media of South Asia” was hosted by the university’s Clowes Centre for Conflict and Dialogue.
Dr. McEwan’s paper was on “Modes of Violence in the films of Ram Gopal Varma.” Varma is a director in Mumbai known for his gangster films set in the Mumbai underworld, and the paper explores the ways in which Varma’s films attempt to blend “Bollywood” conventions with genre elements borrowed from Hollywood and Hong Kong films.
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