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Ratheesh Radhakrishnan

Ratheesh Radhakrishnan

Ratheesh Radhakrishnan
Ratheesh Radhakrishnan
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Room No
04, SAA-II
Email
ratheeshra@jnu.ac.in
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD in Cultural Studies, Centre for the Study of Culture & Society, Bangalore (Manipal University)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Region and language cinemas of India, Film festivals, Transnational cinema, World cinema, Film industry, Film history (with special reference in 1950s and 60s South India), Genre, Cultural Studies.

Experience

Faculty, Department of Humantiies and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay: 2008-2010, 2012-2023.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University (Houston TX)
Member, Selection Committee (India/South Asia Programme), MAMI Mumbai Film Festival (from 2016)
Visiting Faculty of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Monsoon Semester 2014.
Founder Curator, 'TITLES: Festival of Experimental Films from India' held at Rice Cinema (William Marsh Rice University, Houston TX). 2011 to 2014

Awards & Honours

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International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications

In English:

As Editor:
2024 (with SV Srinivas and Subhajit Chatterjee). Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences. New York, London; Routledge
2017. Aesthetics of Space in Indian Cinema. Special issue of positions: asia critique, 25.1

As Author:
2024. "Films In Progress" in Indian Cinema Today and Tomorrow: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Audiences, ed. SV Srinivas, Ratheesh Radhakrishnan and Subhajit Chatterjee. New York, London; Routledge.
Reprinted from 2021. India International Centre Quarterly, 47.3-4
2023. "Individuals and Institutions in the Archive of Failure", Journal of Moving Image, 14
2021. "Region/Regional Cinema". BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 12.1-2
2020. 'Habits and Worlds: Malayalam Cinema's Travels with the Gulf' in Monika Mehta and Madhuja Mukherjee (eds.) Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India: Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media. Oxon: Routledge
2018. 'Artefacts of 'Worlds' Unseen' in Pamela Erskine-Loftus (ed.) Arab Identities and Images in Film: Voices and Conversations. Edinburgh: Akkadia Press
2018. ‘We need to talk about Indian Panorama: A report from International Film Festival of India 2017’. NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, 7, 1. Spring.
2017. 'Urban/ the City: An Experiment called the “Kochi film”'. positions: asia critique, 25, 1.
2016. ‘The ‘Worlds of the Region’. positions: asia critique, 24, 3.
2016. ‘Kim Ki Duk’s Promise, Zanussi’s Betrayal: Film Festival, World Cinema and the Subject of the Region’. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 17, 2.
2015. Thiruvithamkoor, Malabar, Kerala: Speculations on the Regions in ‘Regional Cinema’. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 6, 2.
2014. ‘Aesthetic Dislocations: A Re-take on Malayalam cinema of the 1970s’ in Priya Joshi and Rajinder Dudrah (eds.) 1970s and its Legacies in Indian Cinema. UK: Routledge;
reprinted from 2012. South Asian Popular Culture, 10, 1.
2010. ‘What is Left of Malayalam Cinema?’ in Sowmya Dechamma and E Satya Prakash (eds.) Cinemas Of South India: Culture, Resistance, Ideology. New Delhi. OUP.
2010. ‘Soft porn and the Anxieties of the Family: The Gendering of the Imagined Addressee of Malayalam Cinema’ in Meena T Pillai (ed.) Women in Malayalam Cinema: Naturalising Gender Hierarchies. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
2009. ‘The Gulf in the Imagination: Migration, Malayalam Cinema and Regional Identity’. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 43, 2.
2007. ‘Of Mice and Men: The Futures of Nair Masculinity in a Post Matrilineal Modernity’. Thaapasam: Journal of Kerala Studies, 1, 3 & 4.
2006. ‘Hamare Keral Mein ek Kahavat Hai...: Remakes in Cinema and the Burdens on the ‘Translated Text’’. Transtext(es) Trans Cultures. May.
2005. ‘PE Usha, Hegemonic Masculinities and the Public Domain in Kerala: On the Historical Legacies of the Contemporary’. Inter Asia Cultural Studies, 6, 2.
2004. ‘On the Politics of Documentary Cinema: From Answers to Questions?’ in Films for Freedom Festival Brochure. ‘Films for Freedom’ festival in Bangalore, July.
2002. ‘Looking’ at Mohanlal: Spectatorial Ordering and the Emergence of the ‘Fan’ in Malayalam Cinema’, Deep Focus Film Quarterly, December.
2002. ‘Identities in ‘the dark’: (Identity) Politics in (at) the Cinema’ in Deedi & Girija (eds.) Festival Book, Women’s International Film Festival (WIFF 2002) May 21 – 24, Calicut.

In Malayalam:

2015. "Thirasheelakku Pinnile Adrushya Drishyangal" (The Invisible Images Behind the Screen) in Madhyamam Weekly. 28 December 2015.
2007. "Pakarppavakaashathinte Raashtreeyam" (The Politics of Copyright) & "Sargaathmaka Swaadeenagalum Pakarppedukkalum" (Creative Influences and Copying) – An Interview with Lawrence Liang in Mathrubhumi Weekly 18 & 25 March 2007.
2006. "Kerala Model Cinemayum Nammal Kaanaatha Gulfum" (Kerala Model Cinema and the Imagined Gulf) in Pachakuthira, 2 (8), March 2006.
2005. "1970kalil Sambhavichathu Adhava Malayaliyum Mohanlaum Thammilenthu?" (What Happened in the 1970s, or What is the Relationship Between the Malayali and Mohanlal) in Pachakuthira. 2 (5), December 2005.
2005. "Aanatham Vere, Aanungal Vere" (The Difference Between Masculinity and Men) in Pachakuthira 1 (12), July 2005.
2004. Fans, Fans Association, Malayalacinema (Fans, Fans’ Association, Malayalam Cinema) in Pachakuthira 1 (1), August 2004.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

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Patents (if any)

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

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