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

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

Dr. Abhija Ghosh

Assistant Professor and Programme Coordinator

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.

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

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

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

“The ‘Celluloid Chapter’ in Jamshedpur: Break Journeys and Film Society Cinephilia” in South Asian History and Culture (Paper Accepted and Forthcoming 2024) Special Issue Wondrous Screens in India: Cinema-halls, Place, Public and Cinephila.

“Feudal Fantasies: Hindi Cinema’s Modern Iterations of Romeo and Juliet” 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)

“Spectral, Spectacular and Narrative: Early Cinema and its Origins” 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)

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

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

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

Presented a paper titled “Orchestrating Romance: Nineties Romance Genre, Film Song and Bollywood” at Imagining ‘We’ in the Age of ‘I’ Symposium, held at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Warwick, United Kingdom on 28th September 2018.

“Curiosity, Consent and Desire in Masaan (2015), Pink (2016), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) and Veere Di Wedding (2018) in ‘Bad’ 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

“Lyrical Tales of the Everyday: Reflection on Masaan and Dum LagaKeHaisha” 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 “Rewind and Play: Nineties Romantic Music in the Cinematic Public” 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 “Mediated Nostlagia: Afterlife of Nineties Romance in the Virtual Public Sphere” 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 “Afterlife of the Nineties Romantic Song in the Virutal Public Sphere” at the Sarai Social and Digital Media Fellowship Workshop at CSDS-Sarai, New Delhi on 6th November 2015.

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

“Revisiting the City from a Distance: Reading Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Duratwa” in The Poet of Celluloid: An Anthology o Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Federation of Film Societies of India, 2013. (Book Chapter)

“Mapping A Collective Passion” 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

“The Director as Cinephile” 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.
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