Content tagged "India"
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“A Suitable Girl” screening with director Sarita Khurana
Winner of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival New Director Award, “A Suitable Girl” follows three young women in India struggling to maintain their identities and follow their dreams amid intense pressure to get married.
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India and Indianisms: Documentary Master Classes
Come attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies.
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Podcast: Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos, “The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media”
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
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The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
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Podcast: CMS Alumni Panel
Three Comparative Media Studies alums — Parmesh Shahani, Rekha Murthy, and Sam Ford — return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
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CMS Alumni Panel
Three Comparative Media Studies alums — Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani — return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
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Kate Crawford, “Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture”
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
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Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
Instead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
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Parmesh Shahani, SM ’05: “Drawing Inspiration from Mumbai”
From the MIT Technology Review’s alumni notes comes this piece on Parmesh Shahani, CMS master’s class of 2005.
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From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry
The transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood.
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Alum Parmesh Shahani Named One of Financial Times 25 “Indians to Watch”; Costanza-Chock on Apps for Sandy
“Bringing new insights to a stuffy 115-year-old Indian conglomerate isn’t easy, nor is being an openly gay man in India’s still-traditional business culture – but Parmesh Shahani manages both.”
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Cities and the Future of Entertainment
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
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Why Gay Employees Need to Come Out
“I would never have imagined in July 2009 that by 2011, I would be sitting at the Google office in Bangalore, giving a talk to the Indian Gayglers.”
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Indian Comics as Public Culture
How the Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) series of comic books function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities.
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CMS Alum Parmesh Shahani publishing new book
Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India was originally Parmesh Shahani’s Master’s Thesis for CMS in 2005.
