Madhusree Dutta, the curator of Project Cinema City, is a filmmaker and executive director of Majlis. She curated the cultural component at World Social Forum, 2004 and 2007, and has conceived and realized various courses on cultural literacy and art interfaces for both academic institutions and social movements. Her publications include The Nation, the State and Indian Identity (co-editor, 1996), and Sites and Practices: An Exercise in Cultural Pedagogy (editor, 2006).
One of the outcomes of a artistic-cum-archival project called Project Cinema City conducted by the arts intiative Majlis, dates.sites takes this fundamental connection between the city and cinema as the basis for a decade-by-decade account of events that might constitute a 'cinematic history' of 20th century Bombay/Mumbai.dates.sites is a real goldmine of stories, allowing itself the luxury of the suggestive anecdote: the sparkling, free-floating detail unbound by the ponderous footnote. -- Trisha Gupta Urban Studies A useful compendium of facts, dates and significant moments compiled and designed by Madhushree Dutta and Shilpa Gupta, the book emerges out of Cinema City, a collaborative arts and archival project involving artists, architects, filmmakers, commentators, cityphiles and cinephiles... What emerges out of this seemingly playful but substantive timeline is not only a history of Bombay cinema but innumerable micro-narratives- factoids, anecdotes, observations and comments- that shape and texture the larger story. -- Shohini Ghosh Economic and Political Weekly
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