Dr Harmanpreet Kaur | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Harmanpreet Kaur

Assistant Professor,
Mumbai Campus, Centre for Critical Media Praxis, School of Media and Cultural Studies

Qualification

M.A. (Arts & Aesthetics), JNU,

M.Phil. (Cinema Studies),

PGDMC (Journalism), SIMC, Pune,

Ph.D, JNU

Contact

harmanpreet.kaur[at]tiss[dot]edu

I earned my PhD in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, New Delhi and my doctoral research analyses and charts the journey of alternative films in India from their aesthetics to infrastructures of production, distribution and exhibition from 2007-2019.

I have previously worked in the Films team at LXL Ideas (Mumbai) on nineteen short-fiction films for children including three National Award winning films (Best Friends Forever, The Waterfall, Little Magician), Researcher for the Centre for Indian Visual Culture (New Delhi), Osian's Cinefan Film Festival (New Delhi), Assistant Producer with CNBC-TV18 (Mumbai) and Senior Correspondent with CNN-IBN (New Delhi).

Alternative Cinemas, Art Cinemas, Independent Cinemas, Cinephilia, Film Festivals, Media Industries, Transnationalism, Visual Cultures, Gender and Cinema, Migration and Diaspora

Journal Articles

'Nowhere to Belong: Migration Narratives in Eeb Allay Oo! (2019) and Gamak Ghar (2019)’ in Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol 14, No 1, December 2022, 3-17, Intellect Books

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00053_1

'At Home in the World: Co-productions and Indian Alternative Cinema' in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol 11 No 2 December 2020, 123-145, Sage Journals

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0974927620983941

Book Chapters

'Women Producing Cinema: Guneet Monga and the Rise of the Independent Global Producer' in Women in Contemporary Indian Films & Media: Representations and Responses, Aysha Iqbal Vishwamohan (Ed), Routledge (forthcoming)

'Remoulding the Alternative: Style and Aesthetics of Contemporary Alternative Indian Cinemas' in South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s), Vivek Sachdeva, Chandrakant Langare, Hariprasad Athanickal (Eds.), Routledge (forthcoming)

Book Review

Review of Modernism by Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta, by Srikanth Srinivasan in Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol 13, No 1, pp 59-62, Intellect Books, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00049_5

Other

Column: Reimagining Parallel Cinema, The Week Magazine, Malayala Manorama Press, June 12, p. 71-72, 2022

Book Discussion of Anubha Yadav’s Scripting Bollywood, Galp Lok, 2021

“Lights, Camera, and Time for Action”: Recasting Gender Equality Compliant Hindi Cinema (2021-23)

Funded by: U.S Consulate, Mumbai

Sub project: Scripting Change

This qualitative research project engages with the role of women screenwriters in the Hindi Film industry. The screenplay writer imagines the film, before anyone else in a film production. Within the contemporary period, Hindi cinema has witnessed several women screenplay writers emerge telling stories with a renewed focus on questions of gender roles in society. The study will engage with their craft and process of writing as well as their position within a largely male dominated industry and the pressures they face therein regarding conformity.

Project Link: http://smcs.tiss.edu/research/research-projects/

Understanding Indian Cinemas (Sem III)

Reading Film (Sem II)

Image Making II (Documentary) (Sem II)

Film Appreciation (Sem I)

MCS Media Project

MCS Research Project