Ashvin Devasundaram
Title: Lecturer in World Cinema
School or Department: Languages, Linguistics and Film
E-mail: a.devasundaram (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Sri Lanka; Afghanistan; Global South Asian Diaspora, especially in the UK.
Period of Interest: Contemporary
Research Keywords: new independent Indian cinema; culture; South Asian cinema; postcolonialism; subalternity; diaspora; migration; politics; visual arts; postmodernism.
Relevant Publications:
- India’s New Independent Cinema: Rise of the Hybrid (Routledge, 2016).
- Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood: The New Indian Cinema Revolution (Editor – Ashvin Devasundaram, Routledge, forthcoming in 2018).
- South Asian Diasporic Cinema and Theatre: Revisiting Stage and Screen in the New Millennium, Editors Ajay Chaubey and Ashvin Devasundaram, Rawat Publications, 2017.
- ‘Bollywood’s Soft Power: Branding the Nation, Sustaining a Meta-Hegemony‘, in New Cinemas special edition, Editor – Paul Cooke, 14(1):51-70 01 Mar 2016.
- ‘Beyond Brand Bollywood: Alternative Articulations of Geopolitical Discourse in New Indian Films‘, in Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline, Editors – Robert Saunders and Vlad Strukov, Routledge Geopolitics, 2018.
- Cyber Buccaneers, Public and Pirate Spheres: The Phenomenon of Bittorrent Downloads in the Transforming Terrain of Indian cinema, in Public Spheres and the Media in India, Media International Australia (MIA), Sage, 108-118 01 Aug 2014.