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FACULTY
OF ARTS----Film Studies
Research Activities
The
Department has a
Ph.D programme under which the researchers can be
either self-funded or funded by any legitimate agency. The teachers
of the Department have undertaken research in various areas in their
individual capacity. Key areas of research by teachers are Indian
cinema, Indian Television, European cinema,
Asian Cinema, and the Cinema of Satyajit Ray.
PhD researches completed:
1. Censorship and Cinema
2.
Cinema and Stage: Interaction in the Major Plays of Arthur Miller
and Tennessee Williams
3. Moments of Modernity: Cinema
and Social Response in Bengal between Two World Wars
Ongoing PhD researches:
1. The Non-fiction film in the
Context of War of Independence in Bangladesh: Problems of Realist
Representation
2. Realism as an Authorial Stance
in a Third World Cinema: The Instance of Satyajit Ray
3. The Rhetoric of ‘Kitsch’:
Bengali Popular Cinema (1980-2000) in Search of Political Identity
4. The Citizen in Bangla Cinema,
1950-1990
5. Imagination of Science and
Technology in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1970
6. Othering Space, Forging Selves:
Contemporary Cinema, Globalisation and the New Indian Middle
Class
7.
Reframing Representation in Non-Western Film Culture: Old Canvases,
New Perspectives
in Asian Cinema
8. Assamese Cinema and Assamese Culture.
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Publications
The members of the Faculty
regularly contribute to various national and international journals.
(Select List
of Books)
Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay
(on lien)
Iblisher Atmodarshan
Somporkito,
Kolkata Kobipotro Prakashan,
1969.
Sthananko Nimoy, Kolkata, El Dorado, 1977.
Ritwik Tantra; Kolkata, Ritwik Film Society, 1989.
Antarbati Pratibedan,
Kolkata,
Raktakarabi,
Nashakatar Debdut,
Chalachhitra, Manush ebong Aro Kichhu,
a collection of essays on film and theatre by Ritwik Ghatak,
Edited.
Dey’s Publishing, Kolkata, November 2005.
Annanya ebong Ritwiktantra,
Kolkata,
Chalachchabi,
Moinak
Biswas
Apu and After: Revisiting
Ray’s
Cinema,
Edited.
Calcutta: Seagull Books, Oxford: Berg, June,
2006.
Ganer Bahirana,
collection
of essays
on music by Hemango Biswas
Ujan Gang Baia,
Anustup, 1998
Chaplin Kolkata,Papyrus, 1998, 2001
Abhijit Roy
Eisenstein
(Bangla),
Kolkata,
Papyrus, January, 2004.
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