Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram (UK Queen Mary University of London)

Broschiertes Buch

India's New Independent Cinema

Rise of the Hybrid

Beschreibung

Contemporary scholarship on Indian cinema so far has focused asymmetrically on Bollywoodâ Indiaâ s dominant cultural export. Reversing this trend, this book provides an in-depth examination of the burgeoning independent Indian film sector.

Autor

Dr.　Ashvin Immanuel Devasundaram is Lecturer in World Cinema at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of India's New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid (Routledge, 2016). Ashvin was on the advisory panel for BFI India on Film - part of the UK-India Year of Culture 2017. He is Programming Adviser and Associate Director of the UK Asian Film Festival - London (UKAFF), former Creative Director and founder of the Edinburgh Asian Film Festival (EAFF) and a BBC Academy Expert Voice in Cultural Studies and Visual Arts. Apart from several publications, including the co-edited anthology South Asian Diasporic Cinema and Theatre: Re-visiting Screen and Stage in the New Millennium (Rawat Publications, 2017), Ashvin has delivered an array of international presentations and lectures. These include keynote speeches at the Cinema For All (British Federation of Film Societies) Community Cinema Conference 2017 and the Annual Dadasaheb Phalke Memorial Lecture 2015 in London. Ashvin directed the documentary film Movies, Memories, Magic (2018) charting the London-based South Asian diaspora's memories of cinema.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781138319721
• ISBN-10: 1138319724
• Artikelnr.: 53169440