Contact

Dr Syed Haider  
s.haider@uea.ac.uk
Syed is a Lecturer in World Cinemas at the University of East Anglia. He has published on Muslim representation in Indian cinema through a postcolonial lens; the role and uses of the 'Muslim terrorist' in Hindi cinema to frame and position a nationalist narrative of a globalised/ing India; and the deployment of Sufi aesthetics for the construction of Islam in Bollywood. These publications feed into his broader research project on the possibility of cinematic experience facilitating and engendering aesthetic identities and the intersection between the somatic and the semiotic.    


Dr Mariagiulia Grassilli
m.grassilli@sussex.ac.uk
Giulia's research focuses on Visual Representation of Resistance; engaging towards an Anthropology of Cinema through ethnographies of cinemas; empowering film (co)productions and engaging film screenings in the field of migration, diversity, human rights and climate change.