Ranjani Mazumdar | |
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| Occupation(s) | Scholar, critic, and documentary filmmaker |
| Organization | Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) |
Ranjani Mazumdar is an Indian scholar, critic, and documentary filmmaker. She is Professor of Cinema Studies in the School of Arts & Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her specialist interests include popular cinema, urban cultures, the cinematic city, gender, globalisation of film culture, and the visual culture of film posters.
Mazumdar obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Geography from Miranda House, University of Delhi in 1984. She then earned a Master's in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia's Mass Communication Research Centre in 1986. Later, she went to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for further studies, securing a second Master's (Cinema Studies) in 1992, followed by her PhD (Cinema Studies) in 2001. [1] [2]
Since 2006, Mazumdar has been teaching film studies at JNU's School of Arts & Aesthetics. Prior to this, she was visiting faculty at several institutions, including the Mass Communication Research Centre (Jamia Millia Islamia), Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), and other universities and research centres. Her research addresses themes of modernity, the cinematic imagination, color and technology in film, architecture of the cinematic city, and transitions in film aesthetics. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Her current research involves studying 1960s Bombay cinema especially with respect to color, poster culture, automobility and highway imaginaries, intersections between technology, travel, design, and their roles in the evolution of popular cinema in India. [2] [5] [3]