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SUMMARY:Before East was East: British Pakistani Cinema in the 1980s - Hamz
 a Beg\, MPhil in South Asian Studies\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes
DESCRIPTION:British diasporic film has often been seen as a counter-cultur
 e to mainstream British cinema. The 1990s however saw the popularisation o
 f particularly British Asian films\, leading with the seminal East is East
 . This lecture is focused on the preceding decade\, when British Pakistani
  films fell under the rubric of ‘Black Britain’.  Its aim is to uneart
 h them\, study their individual expression and discuss how cinema and repr
 esentation are connected in regards to this diasporic community. This latt
 er point includes a discussion of homeland – what homes are created and 
 reiterated in front of the lens. Before East was so definitely\, so tangib
 ly and so incontrovertibly East\, it was a malleable mix of acceptance and
  rejection – this lecture at its heart asks about the place of ‘home
 ’ and what role visual culture has in defining it.  
LOCATION:S2 Seminar Room\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd.
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