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Ranjani Mazumdar

Jawaharlal Nehru University

ORCID iD 0009-0000-7056-8265
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Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of Arts and Aesthetics. Her publications focus on popular cinema, techno-urbanism, and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007), co-editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema (2022), and guest editor of two special issues of Bioscope on cinema and techno-materiality (2013) and a dossier on Pathaan (2023). She has also published several academic articles for edited anthologies and journals. Ranjani has also worked as a documentary filmmaker, and her productions include Delhi Diary 2001 and The Power of the Image (Co-Directed). In 2012, she served as a jury member for the 59th National Film Awards. Ranjani is a founder member of the Mediastorm collective, which received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for outstanding media professionals among women. Ranjani has been a Marie Curie European Union Fellow in Indian Film at the University of Westminster (London), a Fellow of the Shelby Cullom Davis Centre for Historical Studies, Princeton University, a British Academy (ESRC) Fellow, an ICSSR Visiting Fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’homme in Paris, and visiting faculty at the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. She has also collaborated with European and U.K. partners for projects supported by the European Union and AHRC, respectively. She is one of the editors of the "Film Theory in Media History" series of Edinburgh University Press. Her current research interests include intermedial encounters, contemporary nonfiction media aesthetics, and the intersection of technology, travel, design, and colour in 1960s Bombay cinema. Her book The Geography of Color: Bombay Cinema of the 1960s will be published by University of California Press, 2027.

Employment

  • Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor
    2007 - Present
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor
    2006 - Present

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