Samhita Sunya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3437166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samhita Sunya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samhita |
| FAMILY NAME | Sunya |
| SIGNATURE | SUNYA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cinema Haunts
Chinaman ’s South Asian Inflections for Game Studies
Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the song-dance films as noisy and nonsensical. if not dangerously seductive and ut…
Changing Winds: Oman TV, Indian (Ocean) Films and Media Piracy in the 1980s
By exploring the case of Oman TV ’s broadcasting of Indian films in the 1970s and 1980s, I uncover the gulf between historiographies of national cinema and television that are framed by histories of production, on the one hand, and accounts of (new) media distribution that are framed by neoliberal contexts of globalization since the late 1990s, on the other. From archival sources, including Indian government documents and trade journals, three in…
Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Moving toward prem Nagar: An Intimate Genealogy of the “City of Love” And the Lyrical Worlds of Hindustani Film Songs
By charting a genealogy of prem nagar in this article, from its literary antecedents through its cinematic iterations, the author shows that the referent for prem nagar in film songs is derived from a generalized experience of transit to and within the modern-industrial city on the one hand, and from the anticipations of romantic love in urban spaces, on the other; and, that the experience of popular cinema becomes inextricable from both. In othe…
Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the song-dance films as noisy and nonsensical. if not dangerously seductive and ut…
Changing Winds: Oman TV, Indian (Ocean) Films and Media Piracy in the 1980s
By exploring the case of Oman TV ’s broadcasting of Indian films in the 1970s and 1980s, I uncover the gulf between historiographies of national cinema and television that are framed by histories of production, on the one hand, and accounts of (new) media distribution that are framed by neoliberal contexts of globalization since the late 1990s, on the other. From archival sources, including Indian government documents and trade journals, three in…
Moving toward prem Nagar: An Intimate Genealogy of the “City of Love” And the Lyrical Worlds of Hindustani Film Songs
By charting a genealogy of prem nagar in this article, from its literary antecedents through its cinematic iterations, the author shows that the referent for prem nagar in film songs is derived from a generalized experience of transit to and within the modern-industrial city on the one hand, and from the anticipations of romantic love in urban spaces, on the other; and, that the experience of popular cinema becomes inextricable from both. In othe…
Pop Empires: Transnational and Diasporic Flows of India and Korea
Changing Winds: Oman TV, Indian (Ocean) Films and Media Piracy in the 1980s
By exploring the case of Oman TV ’s broadcasting of Indian films in the 1970s and 1980s, I uncover the gulf between historiographies of national cinema and television that are framed by histories of production, on the one hand, and accounts of (new) media distribution that are framed by neoliberal contexts of globalization since the late 1990s, on the other. From archival sources, including Indian government documents and trade journals, three in…
Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand not only for domestic and diasporic audiences but also for sizable non-diasporic audiences across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean world. Often confounding critics who painted the song-dance films as noisy and nonsensical. if not dangerously seductive and ut…
Chinaman ’s South Asian Inflections for Game Studies
Cinema Haunts
History (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)