Thursday January 23, 2025 – 5pm, Foster 103
Mehak F. Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
This talk explores new developments in contemporary Pakistani film, including the Cannes favorite Joyland (Sadiq, 2022), and Cake (Abbasi, 2018), two distinct takes on difficult-to-name desires across gendered, sexed, classed, and casteized social boundaries. It considers why unnameable desires are so germane to contemporary Pakistani film, and how the everyday is rendered strange in these global auteurs’ aesthetic and political projects.