MCM Graduate Program
Pooja Rangan
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Biography
Year Entered: 2006
Research interests: media ethnography and autoethnography; media advocacy; technologies of the photographed image; biopolitics; cultural and affective labor; postcolonial studies; contemporary Indian cinema; Marx; Foucault; race and everyday racisms; bolexes and old super-8 cameras; making small documentaries in my spare time; trying to live like a human being now that i'm done with prelims.
Publications:
Forthcoming co-authored essay on race and racism for anthology on postcolonial studies. (Ed. Graham Huggan, 2011).
“Mediating Celebration: Investigating the Film Festival as an Emerging Medium in India.” South Asian Popular Culture: Special Issue on Inter/New Media in South Asia. Edited by Sangita Gopal, Anustup Basu, Rajinder Dudrah and Amit Rai. (submitted by invitation).
“The Labors of Childhood: Media Education, Autoethnography, and the case of Born Into Brothels.” Camera Obscura. (under consideration).
“Transitions, Transactions: Bollywood as a Signifying Practice.” In SARAI Reader ’07: Frontiers. Edited by Monica Narula and Shuddhabhrata Sengupta. New Delhi: Center for Study of Developing Societies, 2007.
Films:
neglecting production (tentative title!, documentary, 16mm, 2009-ongoing)
paradise (web travelogue, flash, 2008) • http://paradise.01cyb.org/
stubborn city (documentary, digital video, 10 mins, 2007) • distributed by Third World Newsreel