Profile | Dr. Akshaya Kumar

Publications

(2018) ‘Deswa, the film and the movement: Taste, Industry and Representation in Bhojpuri Cinema.’ Contemporary South Asia, 26(1).
(2017) ‘Animated Visualities and Competing Sovereignties: The Formal Dwellings of Hindi Cinema.’ Social Text, 35 (3): 41-70.
(2017) ‘Item Number/Item Girl.’ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 40 (2): 338-341.
(2016) ‘Bhojpuri Consolidations in the Hindi Territory: Infrastructure, Aesthetics and Competing Masculinities in North India.’ BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 7 (2): 189-206.
(2016) ‘Bhojpuri cinema and the "rearguard": Gendered leisure, gendered promises.’ Quarterly Review of Film and Video 33(2): 151-175.
(2015) ‘The Unbearable Liveness of News Television in India.’ Television and New Media 16(6): 538–556.
(2014) ‘Satyamev Jayate: Return of the Star as a Sacrificial Figure.’ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 37 (2): 239-254.
(2014) ‘The Aesthetics of Pirate Modernities: Bhojpuri Cinema and the Underclasses.’ In Raminder Kaur and Parul Dave-Mukherji (eds) Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World. Oxford: Berg, 185-203.
(2013) ‘Provincialising Bollywood? Cultural economy of north-Indian small-town nostalgia in the Indian multiplex.’ South Asian Popular Culture 11 (1): 61-74.
(2012) ‘Landscape, Allegory, and Historical Trauma in Postwar Japanese Cinema: Recapitulating Existential Horror in Onibaba (1964) and Woman in the Dunes (1964).’ Asian Cinema Journal 22 (2): 364- 380.