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Studies in South Asian Film & Media 16.2 is out now! Special Issue
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Studies in South Asian Film & Media 16.2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to present Studies in South Asian Film & Media 16.2!

 

Special Issue: ‘Marathi Film and Media’

 

Despite Marathi cinema’s rich, varied, century-long history, scholarship has been sparse. It is only in recent years that we see a growing academic interest in the field. Speculating on whether the Marathi film industry’s collocation with the ‘national’ Hindi film industry is one of the primary reasons for this scholarly neglect, this focused issue collects four articles on diverse topics and with differing approaches to Marathi film and media culture by both established and early-career scholars to encourage Marathi cinema scholarship. The goal is to further our understanding of the other languages/regional versus Hindi/national binary.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-south-asian-film-media

 

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.

 

This title is indexed with Scopus.

 

Issue 16.2

 

Editorial

AARTI WANI

 

Special Issue Articles

 

Not quite the vanguard! Aspirations of ‘newer’ new Marathi cinema

HRISHIKESH INGLE

 

Contemporary YouTube advertising and the making of the Marathi Brahmin identity

MADHURA LOHOKARE

 

The city of new Marathi cinema and urban negotiations with caste

PRADNYA WAGHULE

 

Conformity and subversion: Autobiographical strategies of Marathi film actresses in shaping their celebrity personas (1930s–50s)

MEGHNA GANGADHARAN AND ANANYA GHOSHAL

 

Regular Articles

 

The odi assan: Myth, liberation and caste in ‘If in the Shadows, a Leopard!’

NANDHITHA MURUGANANDAN AND SATHYARAJ VENKATESAN

 

Forbidden spectacles of a bygone era: An analysis of Malayalam cinema’s soft-porn noon-show culture

SONY JALARAJAN RAJ AND ADITH K. SURESH

 

Freedom behind the bars: Exploring queer narratives in the films Aligarh and Great Freedom

SANIKA KUNJAVIHARI THAKURDESAI