Curatorial Reflections: Letters of Love (LOL) from the Middle East to South Asia : A Trio of Transregional Genre Comedies

摘要

In Spring, 2018, I was invited to curate a film series while in residence at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University. By coincidence, after at least two years of several wrong numbers, unanswered Facebook/Twitter direct messages, and misdirected e-mails, I found myself in conversation with the respective producers and distributors of three films whose English-subtitled versions I had been seeking, as possible additions to an introductory survey course on Middle East-South Asia film history. A bread-and-butter offering that emerged directly from my research interests, the course was designed to highlight the prolific, decades-long movement and interconnectedness of films, film industry personnel, and film genres across the Middle East and South Asia.