Why study pop-culture? How is Hindi cinema received outside India? What does the Caribbean have to do with Om Shanti Om? Is academics a form of activism? How can education create social change? Usha Iyer is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University.
Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of cinema, performance, and gender studies with a specific focus on stardom, body cultures, spectatorial desire and engagement, and the political economy of transnational media. Other areas of research include performance traditions of the Indian indentured labour diaspora in the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean. Her first book, Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Popular Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press) will be released in June 2019.
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Om Shanti Om by Lord Shorty:
(Usha's interview begins 20 minutes in)
The video is the property of Paritosh Kanoria. It has been created for educational purposes only. It was recorded at Jnanapravaha Mumbai on December 20th 2019, on occasion of a public talk on the same day titled Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Popular Hindi Cinema.
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