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M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)


B.A.; M.A. (University of Delhi);

Prof. (Dr.) Abhija Ghosh

Assistant Professor and Programme Director (Film & New Media - FNM)

Email abhija.ghosh@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0009-0008-8536-3201
Key Expertise Film History, Media Industries, Film Sound, Music Technologies, Early cinema, Indian Cinema, Bollywood, Popular Culture.

M.Phil.; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)


B.A.; M.A. (University of Delhi);


Biography

Abhija Ghosh has a PhD in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral research focused on how the rise of the audio cassette industry shaped the imagination and production of 1990s romances in Bombay cinema, courting debates on modernity, censorship, sexuality and nation making in the public sphere. Her research interests include film history, media industries, sound and music technologies, early cinema and Indian popular cinemas. Her essays are published in ‘Bad’ Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety (2020) and Music, Modernity and Publicness in India (2020), Introduction to Film Studies (2022), and Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies. She has received the Charles Wallace Short Research grant (2012) and Sarai Social Media Fellowship (2015) for her research on celluloid and digital cinephilia. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellow (2017-2018) at the Center for Media, Culture and History, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York. 

Appreciating the Moving Image I (Core)

Appreciating the Moving Image II (Core)

Sound in Society (Core)

Bombay to Bollywood: Hindi Cinema's Past and Present (Elective)

Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship/ New York University, 2017-2018

Sarai-CSDS Social Media Fellowship, 2015

Charles Wallace Short Research Grant, 2012

鈥淭he 鈥楥elluloid Chapter鈥 in Jamshedpur: Break Journeys and Film Society Cinephilia鈥 in South Asian History and Culture (Paper Accepted and Forthcoming 2024) Special Issue Wondrous Screens in India: Cinema-halls, Place, Public and Cinephila.

鈥淔eudal Fantasies: Hindi Cinema鈥檚 Modern Iterations of Romeo and Juliet鈥 in Author to Auteur: Theories and Film Adaptations. Ed. Jigyasa H. Sondhi and Himdari Roy. Worldview Publications: New Delhi and Kolkata, 2022, 246- 272. ISBN: 97889382267405 (Book Chapter)

鈥淪pectral, Spectacular and Narrative: Early Cinema and its Origins鈥 in Film Studies: An Introduction. Ed. Vebhuti Duggal, Bindu Menon and Spandan Bhattacharya. Worldview Publications: New Delhi and Kolkata, 2022, 91-105. ISBN: 9789382267515 (Book Chapter)

鈥淩ewind and Play: Nineties Romantic Music in the Cinematic Public鈥 in Music, Modernity and Publicness in India. Ed. Tejaswini Niranjana. OUP India: New Delhi. Published 4 June 2020, 158-184. ISBN: 9780190121129 (Book Chapter)

鈥淛SR: Of Modern Monuments and Memories鈥 in Jamshedpur 100 Years and Counting, Tata Steel and The Marg Foundation: Mumbai, 2020, 126-133. ISBN: 9789383243310 (Book Chapter)

鈥淢emories of Film Travel: Tracing Film Society Cinephilia in India鈥 in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, 2019, Vol 9, Issue 2, 1-28. ISSN: 09749276 (Scopus). DOI 10.1177/0974927618814026

Presented a paper titled 鈥淥rchestrating Romance: Nineties Romance Genre, Film Song and Bollywood鈥 at Imagining 鈥榃e鈥 in the Age of 鈥業鈥 Symposium, held at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick, United Kingdom on 28th September 2018.

鈥淐uriosity, Consent and Desire in Masaan (2015), Pink (2016), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) and Veere Di Wedding (2018) in 鈥楤ad鈥 Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety. Ed. Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha. Palgrave Macmillan: New Delhi, 2019, 331- 343. ISBN: 9783030267889 (Book Chapter: Scopus. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-26788-9_19

鈥淟yrical Tales of the Everyday: Reflection on Masaan and Dum LagaKeHaisha鈥 in Indian Film Culture: Indian Cinema, Federation of Film Societies of India, 2016. (Book Chapter)

Book Review of Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers by Shalini Shankar (Duke University, 2016) in Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Volume 8 Number 1, pp.79-80. ISSN 17564921

Presented a paper titled 鈥淩ewind and Play: Nineties Romantic Music in the Cinematic Public鈥 at Music, Modernity and the Public Sphere, International Conference held at University of Chicago, Center in Delhi on 26, 27 & 28th February 2016.

Presented a paper titled 鈥淢ediated Nostlagia: Afterlife of Nineties Romance in the Virtual Public Sphere鈥 at Diginaka, Digital Media Studies Conference held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai on January 6-9th 2016.

Presented a paper titled 鈥淎fterlife of the Nineties Romantic Song in the Virutal Public Sphere鈥 at the Sarai Social and Digital Media Fellowship Workshop at CSDS-Sarai, New Delhi on 6th November 2015.

Presented a paper titled 鈥淐elluloid in Transit: Film Travel, Memories of Action and Film Society Cinephilia鈥 at MOVING ON: South Asian Screen Cultures in a Broader Frame, held at the University of Westminster, United Kingdom on 12th- 14thJune 2014.

鈥淩evisiting the City from a Distance: Reading Buddhadeb Dasgupta鈥檚 Duratwa鈥 in The Poet of Celluloid: An Anthology o Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Federation of Film Societies of India, 2013. (Book Chapter)

鈥淢apping A Collective Passion鈥 in The Book Review, Volume XXXVII Number 8 August, 2013; Review of Housefull: The Golden Age of Indian Cinema edited by Ziya Us Salam and The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic by Anna MM Vetticad. (http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-1330/2013/august/8/mapping-a-collective-passion.html) ISBN 81-88434-01-9

鈥淭he Director as Cinephile鈥 in The Book Review Volume XXXVI Number 10 October 2012, South Asia XX-2; review of Deep Focus: Reflections on Cinema by Satyajit Ray. (http://www.thebookreviewindia.org/articles/archives-1060/2012/october/10/the-director-as-cinephile.html) ISBN 81-88434-01-9
Email abhija.ghosh@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0009-0008-8536-3201
Key Expertise Film History, Media Industries, Film Sound, Music Technologies, Early cinema, Indian Cinema, Bollywood, Popular Culture.