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BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies


eISSN: 0976352X | ISSN: 09749276 | Current volume: 15 | Current issue: 1 Frequency: Bi-annually

An early and popular form of film projector, "bioscope", was widely used to refer to the cinema in twentieth century South Asia. By focusing on the word's component parts, we highlight the expanding spectrum of forms involved in thinking about the relationship of life to visual and sound technologies. From the orbit of film, television and video, we invite research into a wide historical and contemporary canvas, from precinematic forms of assembly, through to contemporary computer practices, game cultures, multimedia telephony, ambient television, surveillance cameras, and the wide range of materials assembled on the internet. Our interests also extend to new media arts and contemporary screen-based art installations.

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies is a blind peer-reviewed journal published biannually, starting January 2010. We encourage theoretical and empirical research both on located screen practices and wider networks, linkages, and patterns of circulation. This involves research into the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized and multi-sited conditions of production and circulation.

There is special attention given to archival research and field work. This includes documentation and ethnographic enquiry into media institutions and industries, and their modes of regulation, for example, the policies, debates and practices of urban administration, censorship regimes, and intellectual property regulation.

Our concern with old and new media forms invites work not only on changing technologies, but also on the spaces within which media experience is organized, including changing architecture and design and an enquiry into spatial forms and histories.

Our attention extends to the rich intersection of South Asian screen practices with related media forms, for example musical recording and performance, popular print culture and stage set design, and the history of publicity, advertising and consumer cultures.

To engage the specific idioms and forms of screen culture, we invite translations of important texts on screen experience as these are made available through writings on visual and sound cultures and technologies such as reviews, criticism, essays, and literary works.

BioScope is supported by the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India, and the India Media Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK. is supported by the Sarai Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India, and the India Media Centre, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, UK.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

An early and popular form of film projector, “bioscope”, was widely used to refer to the cinema in twentieth century South Asia. By focusing on the word’s component parts, we highlight the expanding spectrum of forms involved in thinking about the relationship of life to visual and sound technologies. From the orbit of film, television and video, we invite research into a wide historical and contemporary canvas, from precinematic forms of assembly, through to contemporary computer practices, game cultures, multimedia telephony, ambient television, surveillance cameras, and the wide range of materials assembled on the internet. Our interests also extend to new media arts and contemporary screen-based art installations.

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies is a blind peer-reviewed journal published biannually, starting January 2010. We encourage theoretical and empirical research both on located screen practices and wider networks, linkages, and patterns of circulation. This involves research into the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized and multi-sited conditions of production and circulation.

There is special attention given to archival research and field work. This includes documentation and ethnographic enquiry into media institutions and industries, and their modes of regulation, for example, the policies, debates and practices of urban administration, censorship regimes, and intellectual property regulation.

Our concern with old and new media forms invites work not only on changing technologies, but also on the spaces within which media experience is organized, including changing architecture and design and an enquiry into spatial forms and histories.

Our attention extends to the rich intersection of South Asian screen practices with related media forms, for example musical recording and performance, popular print culture and stage set design, and the history of publicity, advertising and consumer cultures.

To engage the specific idioms and forms of screen culture, we invite translations of important texts on screen experience as these are made available through writings on visual and sound cultures and technologies such as reviews, criticism, essays, and literary works.

Editors
Bindu Menon Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
Ravi S. Vasudevan Centre for the Study of Developing Societies/SARAI, India
Rosie Thomas University of Westminister, UK
Kartik Nair Temple University, USA
Debashree Mukherjee Columbia University, USA
Lotte Hoek University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Salma Siddique Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Reviews Editor
Samhita Sunya University of Virginia, USA
Associate Editors
Swati Bakshi University of Westminister, UK
Vindhya Buthpitiya University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Vebhuti Duggal Ambedkar University, Delhi 
Editorial Advisors
Iftikhar Dadi Cornell University, USA
Nitin Govil University of Southern California, USA
Steve Hughes Royal Anthropological Insitute, UK
Priya Jaikumar University of Southern California, USA
Ranjani Mazumdar Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Ratheesh Radhakrishnan Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Zakir Hossain Raju Independent University, Bangladesh
Editorial Board
S V Srinivas Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
Richard Allen City University, Hong Kong
Ira Bhaskar Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Moinak Biswas Jadavpur University, India
Corey Creekmur The University of Iowa, USA
David Desser Emeritus Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Christine Gledhill University of Sunderland, UK
Lalitha Gopalan The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jyotindra Jain Formerly at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Laleen Jayamanne The University of Sydney, Australia
Neepa Majumdar University of Pittsburgh, USA
Gina Marchetti University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
M Madhava Prasad Formerly English and Foreign Languages University, India
Ashish Rajadhyaksha Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, India
Arvind Rajagopal New York University, USA
Robert P Stam New York University, USA
Ravi Sundaram Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India
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