Ranjani Mazumdar
Biographic Data
| ID | 2395660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ranjani Mazumdar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ranjani |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazumdar |
| SIGNATURE | MAZUMDAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-7056-8265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Pathaan Effect
Pathaan: Networks of Affective Virality
Design
Repetition with a Difference: A Response to Arjun Appadurai
This is a response to Arjun Appadurai’s article “The Ready-Made Pleasures of Déjà Vu: Repeat Viewing of Bollywood Films.” 1 Repetition as a concept is discussed here in relation to Deleuze, genre, remakes of older films, tradition, cultural regimentation, and individual desire
Film stardom after liveness
As films move from exhibition theatres to television, from award shows to talk shows, dance performances to fashion shows, the figure of the star acquires a new force. Given the new networks of circulation, mega-budget stage events, touring shows and award nights have emerged as a prime site for the production of stardom. These promotional events are saturated with advertising, dance performances, comic acts and a dazzling ambience that exists wi…
Wanted cultured ladies only! Female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s–1950s
Neepa Majumdar, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 258 pp., $25.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-252-07628-2 Neepa Majumdar's book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! looks at the discourse of stardom
Terrorism, Conspiracy, and Surveillance in Bombay's Urban Cinema
This essay looks at three films from Bombay that take the issue of terrorism to mediate the landscape of conspiracy, surveillance, and the city. The films are Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (2005), Raj Kumar Gupta's Aamir (2008), and Neeraj Pandey's A Wednesday(2009). All three films belong to a body of cinema that has emerged in relation to what is now commonly referred to as the Multiplex era. The filmmakers belong to a community of cinephiles a…
Chapter 7. Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque: The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema
That Elusive Object of Cinema
The spaces of the modern city: Imaginaries, politics, and everyday life
By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the ci…
The Bombay Film Poster: The Journey from the Street to the Museum
Marketing has always been central to the film industry all over the worls, now more than ever. Here, Ranjani Mazumdar takes us through the short artistic and economic history of film posters in India
Film stardom after liveness
As films move from exhibition theatres to television, from award shows to talk shows, dance performances to fashion shows, the figure of the star acquires a new force. Given the new networks of circulation, mega-budget stage events, touring shows and award nights have emerged as a prime site for the production of stardom. These promotional events are saturated with advertising, dance performances, comic acts and a dazzling ambience that exists wi…
Wanted cultured ladies only! Female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s–1950s
Neepa Majumdar, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 258 pp., $25.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-252-07628-2 Neepa Majumdar's book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! looks at the discourse of stardom
Terrorism, Conspiracy, and Surveillance in Bombay's Urban Cinema
This essay looks at three films from Bombay that take the issue of terrorism to mediate the landscape of conspiracy, surveillance, and the city. The films are Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (2005), Raj Kumar Gupta's Aamir (2008), and Neeraj Pandey's A Wednesday(2009). All three films belong to a body of cinema that has emerged in relation to what is now commonly referred to as the Multiplex era. The filmmakers belong to a community of cinephiles a…
The Bombay Film Poster: The Journey from the Street to the Museum
Marketing has always been central to the film industry all over the worls, now more than ever. Here, Ranjani Mazumdar takes us through the short artistic and economic history of film posters in India
That Elusive Object of Cinema
The spaces of the modern city: Imaginaries, politics, and everyday life
By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the ci…
Chapter 7. Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque: The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema
Wanted cultured ladies only! Female stardom and cinema in India, 1930s–1950s
Neepa Majumdar, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009, 258 pp., $25.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-252-07628-2 Neepa Majumdar's book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only! looks at the discourse of stardom
Terrorism, Conspiracy, and Surveillance in Bombay's Urban Cinema
This essay looks at three films from Bombay that take the issue of terrorism to mediate the landscape of conspiracy, surveillance, and the city. The films are Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday (2005), Raj Kumar Gupta's Aamir (2008), and Neeraj Pandey's A Wednesday(2009). All three films belong to a body of cinema that has emerged in relation to what is now commonly referred to as the Multiplex era. The filmmakers belong to a community of cinephiles a…
Film stardom after liveness
As films move from exhibition theatres to television, from award shows to talk shows, dance performances to fashion shows, the figure of the star acquires a new force. Given the new networks of circulation, mega-budget stage events, touring shows and award nights have emerged as a prime site for the production of stardom. These promotional events are saturated with advertising, dance performances, comic acts and a dazzling ambience that exists wi…
Repetition with a Difference: A Response to Arjun Appadurai
This is a response to Arjun Appadurai’s article “The Ready-Made Pleasures of Déjà Vu: Repeat Viewing of Bollywood Films.” 1 Repetition as a concept is discussed here in relation to Deleuze, genre, remakes of older films, tradition, cultural regimentation, and individual desire
Design
The Pathaan Effect
Pathaan: Networks of Affective Virality
Art (7 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Movie theater (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works)