<p>Film and Media Studies; Cultural Studies; South Asian Cinema</p>
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Email Address:
nmajumda@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Majumdar
Publications:
2012 “Teaching Indian Cinema: The Burden of Representation and Other Dilemmas of National Cinema Pedagogy” in Teaching Film, eds. Lucy Fischer and Patrice Petro
2011 “Importing Neorealism, Exporting Cinema: Indian Cinema and Film Festivals in the 1950s,” Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style. Eds. Robert Sklar and Saverio Giovacchini, University Press of Mississippi,
2010 “Sant Tukaram (1936),” The Cinema of India: 24 Frames Series. Ed. Lalitha Gopalan Wallflower Press
Qualifications:
PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2001
Department:
Film and Media Studies
Region:
South Asia
Office:
617K Cathedral of Learning
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Office phone number:
412-624-5578
Rank:
Associate Professor
Biography:
<p>Neepa Majumdar is Associate Professor of English and Film Studies. Her research interests include star studies, film sound, South Asian early cinema, documentary film, and questions of film history and historiography. Her book Wanted Cultured Ladies Only: Female Stardom and Cinema in India, 1930s to 1950s (University of Illinois Press, 2009) won an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Best First Book Award of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her essays have appeared in The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, South Asian Popular Culture, and Post Script, as well as collections such as The Continuum Companion to Sound in Film and Visual Media (ed. Graeme Harper, 2009), Film Analysis: A Norton Reader (ed. R. L. Rutsky and Jeffrey Gieger, 2005), and Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music, (ed. Arthur Knight and Pamela Wojcik, 2001).</p>
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