Frontiers of History

Imagining History and the Future: Through Cinema, Literature and Architecture
Speaker: Snehanshu Mukherjee, Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. Along with teaching and practicing architecture, he has remained a keen observer of the performing arts
 
Chair: Shohini Ghosh, Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia
 
This presentation looks at how architecture helps to give physical shape and add the dimension of time convincingly to written works of fiction as depicted in cinema by exploring specific scenes from classic films such as Ray’s Aparajito, Charulata and Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood amongst others