Il 3 e il 4 ottobre 2013 presso l'università di Otago (Nuova Zelanda) si terrà il seminario Centenary of Indian Cinema: Aesthetics, Economics, and Politics, col patrocinio del New Zealand India Research Institute. Nell'annuncio ufficiale si legge: 'Today, Indian cinema is, undoubtedly, a global transnational cultural industry in terms of output and reach, and in terms of the multifaceted relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, and institutional discourses. It is a significant cultural industry that plays a central role in articulating fundamental modalities of inscribing subjectivities gender, sexuality, nationalism, caste, class, religion, ethnicity played out within specific historical moments and fields of power. Further, it should be noted that Indian cinema is a heterogeneous assemblage that includes, in addition to mainstream regional Indian cinemas, documentary films, parallel cinema, short films, digital films, amateur films and those made for the festival circuit. It has, in that regard, numerous countenances. (...) The Indian film industry is now a multi-billion dollar business and employs thousands of actors and technicians. Hence its commercial and human resource aspects cannot be neglected either. (...) What is the future of this cinema? (...) How do we evaluate the economic impact of this film industry, both inside India and outside, as increasingly Indian films are shot in foreign countries, including New Zealand? (...) At this critical juncture of Indian cinemas history and a rapidly changing mediascape, it is time, we believe to reflect on and debate Indian cinema: its pasts, present and future; and its possibilities, potentialities, and limits'.
