Šarūnas Paunksnis
Biographic Data
| ID | 6722618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Šarūnas Paunksnis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Šarūnas |
| FAMILY NAME | Paunksnis |
| SIGNATURE | PAUNKSNIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kaunas University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0115-9227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms
This book offers interdisciplinary examination of gender representations in cinema and SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) platforms in India.
The rise of streaming culture
The article analyses the reasons and the effects of the rise of digital platforms in India, specifically focusing on SVOD platforms. The proliferation of various digital video platforms of different types has been tremendous both in India and the world since early years of 21st century. Taking into consideration the fact that digitality in India is a recent phenomenon, the article, by drawing upon some of the most significant theories in new medi…
India digitalized
This article critically engages with the rationale of Digital India, a flagship programme of the Government of India, launched in 2015. It argues that this programme has been instrumental for the state and the corporate sector in order to steadily create a system of surveillance capitalism which collects the users’ behavioural data. The article analyses these problems by looking at the rise of platform economy throughout the second decade of twen…
Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms
Digital Being(s)
The article analyses the centrality of new media platforms in the everyday life of contemporary India. It claims that the representations of everyday life saturated with media technology in films and web series helps us to understand the ways new media has become central to the life experience in India over a rather short period. By engaging with philosophical and sociological theories, and by approaching the question and the theory through sever…
Masculine anxiety and ‘new Indian woman’ in the films of Anurag Kashyap
This essay examines the portrayal of masculine anxiety and the representation of ‘new Indian women’ in Anurag Kashyap’s films Dev D (2009), Ugly (2013) and Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Kashyap in his films, particularly in the films mentioned here, focuses on transforming social relations in post-liberalization urban India. His films often portray the anxiety of contemporary Indian men over the issue of female emancipation and their aggression toward…
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyzes a film form that began to emerge in Hindi cinema in early 21st century - a form that is marked by realism, by focusing on urban life and culture of the new middle class, as well as pessimism, violence, fear and the presence of the 'other' in many forms. The author locates new cinematic developments in a much broader context of sociocultural change in contemporary India, and traces the roots of imagining India 'dar…
Towards neurotic realism
This essay addresses the problems attendant to the subject-formation of the new Indian middle class by analysing several films from the perspective of the emergence of a new type of cinematic aesthetics. The new film form discussed in the essay is termed neurotic realism. This peculiar film form is part of ‘new’ India’s visual culture, and is instrumental both in constructing and representing new dichotomies of Self and Other. The Other in this c…
Dislocating Globality
Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d’être. The authors in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives – theoretical, as well as geographically diverse case-based analyses ranging from South Asia, the Middle East, Lat…
Into the Wild
This essay explores the main reasons behind the emergence of a new film form over the past decade – variously referred to as “New Bollywood,” or alternative Hindi cinema. Using philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches, the essay argues that the rise of these new aesthetic forms is one of the results of the neoliberal transformations that have been taking place in India over recent decades and, more importantly, that this new film form is an …
Dislocating globality
Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization and its effects analysing it both on a theoretical level, and basing the analysis in using cases from different parts of the world.
Postmodern Experience in India
The article discusses India’s transition to a postmodern condition and consumerist society taking the transformation in Indian cinema, and the production and consumption of certain images over the past decade as its referential point. It argues that the changes that have been occurring in India, and in its cinemas, produced new types of films, and a new type of imagination that is fixated on the consumption of subalternity. It also argues that th…
Masculine anxiety and ‘new Indian woman’ in the films of Anurag Kashyap
This essay examines the portrayal of masculine anxiety and the representation of ‘new Indian women’ in Anurag Kashyap’s films Dev D (2009), Ugly (2013) and Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Kashyap in his films, particularly in the films mentioned here, focuses on transforming social relations in post-liberalization urban India. His films often portray the anxiety of contemporary Indian men over the issue of female emancipation and their aggression toward…
Postmodern Experience in India
The article discusses India’s transition to a postmodern condition and consumerist society taking the transformation in Indian cinema, and the production and consumption of certain images over the past decade as its referential point. It argues that the changes that have been occurring in India, and in its cinemas, produced new types of films, and a new type of imagination that is fixated on the consumption of subalternity. It also argues that th…
Dislocating globality
Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization and its effects analysing it both on a theoretical level, and basing the analysis in using cases from different parts of the world.
Postmodern Experience in India
The article discusses India’s transition to a postmodern condition and consumerist society taking the transformation in Indian cinema, and the production and consumption of certain images over the past decade as its referential point. It argues that the changes that have been occurring in India, and in its cinemas, produced new types of films, and a new type of imagination that is fixated on the consumption of subalternity. It also argues that th…
Dislocating Globality
Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d’être. The authors in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives – theoretical, as well as geographically diverse case-based analyses ranging from South Asia, the Middle East, Lat…
Into the Wild
This essay explores the main reasons behind the emergence of a new film form over the past decade – variously referred to as “New Bollywood,” or alternative Hindi cinema. Using philosophical and psychoanalytical approaches, the essay argues that the rise of these new aesthetic forms is one of the results of the neoliberal transformations that have been taking place in India over recent decades and, more importantly, that this new film form is an …
Towards neurotic realism
This essay addresses the problems attendant to the subject-formation of the new Indian middle class by analysing several films from the perspective of the emergence of a new type of cinematic aesthetics. The new film form discussed in the essay is termed neurotic realism. This peculiar film form is part of ‘new’ India’s visual culture, and is instrumental both in constructing and representing new dichotomies of Self and Other. The Other in this c…
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities
Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyzes a film form that began to emerge in Hindi cinema in early 21st century - a form that is marked by realism, by focusing on urban life and culture of the new middle class, as well as pessimism, violence, fear and the presence of the 'other' in many forms. The author locates new cinematic developments in a much broader context of sociocultural change in contemporary India, and traces the roots of imagining India 'dar…
Masculine anxiety and ‘new Indian woman’ in the films of Anurag Kashyap
This essay examines the portrayal of masculine anxiety and the representation of ‘new Indian women’ in Anurag Kashyap’s films Dev D (2009), Ugly (2013) and Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Kashyap in his films, particularly in the films mentioned here, focuses on transforming social relations in post-liberalization urban India. His films often portray the anxiety of contemporary Indian men over the issue of female emancipation and their aggression toward…
Digital Being(s)
The article analyses the centrality of new media platforms in the everyday life of contemporary India. It claims that the representations of everyday life saturated with media technology in films and web series helps us to understand the ways new media has become central to the life experience in India over a rather short period. By engaging with philosophical and sociological theories, and by approaching the question and the theory through sever…
Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms
This book offers interdisciplinary examination of gender representations in cinema and SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) platforms in India.
The rise of streaming culture
The article analyses the reasons and the effects of the rise of digital platforms in India, specifically focusing on SVOD platforms. The proliferation of various digital video platforms of different types has been tremendous both in India and the world since early years of 21st century. Taking into consideration the fact that digitality in India is a recent phenomenon, the article, by drawing upon some of the most significant theories in new medi…
India digitalized
This article critically engages with the rationale of Digital India, a flagship programme of the Government of India, launched in 2015. It argues that this programme has been instrumental for the state and the corporate sector in order to steadily create a system of surveillance capitalism which collects the users’ behavioural data. The article analyses these problems by looking at the rise of platform economy throughout the second decade of twen…
Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Movie theater (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)