Contributors
Zain Jamshaid
Zain Jamshaid is a graduate (MA) student in Columbia University School of the Art’s Film Studies Program. He is currently working on his Master’s thesis which traces the points of intersection between New Indian Cinema filmmaker Mani Kaul’s theoretical/filmic discourse and Western film theory. His varied interests include comparative aesthetics, Indian avant-garde traditions and modernist practices, European modernisms, transnational feminisms, critical legal studies, contemporary Latin American Cinema, queer representations on film, the place of the animal in continental philosophy, and Pakistani political cultures. Recently, he has published a piece examining Belgian director Chantal Akerman’s ambivalent approach to feminist theory in Senses of Cinema, and has also presented a project (called “The Failure of ‘Hybridity’ in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled”) at Bucknell University examining Spike Lee’s racial politics in Bamboozled (2000). He intends to pursue a doctorate in Film/Visual cultures.
