Intellect is happy to announce that Studies in South Asian Film & Media 10.2 is now available!

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Aims & Scope

Studies in South Asian Film & Media is a double-blind peer-reviewed publication committed to looking at the media and cinemas of the Indian subcontinent in their social, political, economic, historical, and increasingly globalized and diasporic contexts. The journal will evaluate these topics in relation to class, caste, gender, race, sexuality and ideology.

Issue 10.2

Articles

Songs from India and Zanzibar: Documenting the Gulf in migration 

Dale Hudson

Tracing Kolkata’s cinephilic encounters: An analysis of alternative cinema in the city 

Amrita Biswas

Performance, performativity and melodrama as dramatic substance in Hindi film song sequences 

Anna Morcom

Cinema and the political in Kerala: On Mukhamukham and Amma Ariyan 

Jenson Joseph

Women vs modernity in Rajinikanth’s Tamillanguage films: The mother, the good woman, the modern virgin and the angry feminist 

Sinduja Sathiyaseelan

Making the nation manly: The case of Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013) and India’s search for regional dominance in an era of neo-liberal globalization 

Sikata Banerjee and Rina Verma

Book Reviews

The Films of Mira Nair: Diaspora Vérité, Amardeep Singh (2018) 

Bijoy Philip

Deities & Devotees: Cinema, Religion, and Politics in South India, Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda (2018) 

Sonal Vij

Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Independence in Practice, Shweta Kishore (2018) 

Fathima Nizaruddin

Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture, Ulka Anjaria (2019) 

Namrata Rele Sathe

India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World’s Largest Democracy, Ravi Agrawal (2018) 

Anirban K. Baishya

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath (2018)

Darshana Sreedhar Mi