Contributors
- Contributors
Moinak Biswas is a professor in the Department of Film Studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He also is the coordinator of the Media Lab at Jadavpur. He writes on Indian cinema and culture. Among his publications is Apu and After, Revisiting Ray’s Cinema (2005). He edits the Journal of the Moving Image and has recently written and codirected the award-winning Bengali feature film Sthaniya Sambaad (Spring in the Colony, 2010).
Subhajit Chatterjee obtained his postgraduate degree in film studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, and he completed his doctoral research at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. His academic research has focused on melodrama, Bengali cinema, exploitation genres, and alternative film cultures in India. His articles have appeared in Journal of the Moving Image, Marg, and South Asian Journal.
Manishita Dass is a senior lecturer in film and global media at Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India (2015) and has published articles in Cinema Journal, Global Art Cinema (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (2012), and Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses (2013). She is currently working on Left Luggage: Cinematic Legacies of the Indian People’s Theatre Movement, a book about the impact of Left radicalism on the film cultures of Bombay and Calcutta in the 1940s–60s. [End Page 249]
Priya Jaikumar is an associate professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, Department of Critical Studies. She is author of Cinema at the End of Empire (2006) and has published articles and book chapters on colonial cinema, Indian cinema, transnational feminism, film policy, and film aesthetics. She is currently working on a critical historiography of India as a location in British, European, and Indian theatrical and nontheatrical film productions.
Jenson Joseph is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. After completing his doctoral research on Malayalam cinema of the 1950s at the University of Hyderabad (India) in 2013, he taught media and communication at the University of Hyderabad, the Central University of Tamil Nadu, and St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Sciences, Bangalore. His work has appeared in journals such as BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies and Tapasam: Journal of Kerala Studies.
Ratheesh Radhakrishnan is an associate professor with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai, India.
Richard I. Suchenski is an associate professor of film and electronic arts and the founder and director of the Center for Moving Image Arts at Bard College. He is the author of Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film (2016) and the editor of Hou Hsiao-hsien (2014). Film programs he has curated have traveled to museums, festivals, and cinematheques in more than twenty-five cities worldwide.
Samhita Sunya is an assistant professor of cinema in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching interests include world film history, Asian cinemas, intersections of (old and new) audio-visual media and literature, and sound studies. Current and planned publications include a book project (Sirens of Modernity: Post-war Cartographies of World Cinema via Hindi Film/Songs) and essays that build on research conducted at the National Film Archive of India as well as archives in the Middle East that explore transnational circuits and histories of romantic Hindi film and songs.
Nitya Vasudevan is the program convener at the Centre for Youth and Gender Justice, Baduku Community College (Samvada), Bangalore. She received her PhD from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore, India. Her dissertation is titled “Turning Towards the Bodily Subject: Theorizing the Field of Visibility in Contemporary India.” Her work has appeared in The Sexual History of the Global South (2013) and Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law (2011) and in journals such as Pragmata: Journal of Human Sciences and the Companion. She is...
