Ashish Rajyadhyaksha has published widely on cinema and contemporary art. member of the editorial collective, Journal of Arts and Ideas and a regular contributor to Framework and Sight & Sound. He is also currently co-ordinating the media archive at CSCS
Contact Details: email: ashish@cscs.res.in
phone: +91-80-2-656-2986
Course Offerings:
Prior Positions: Has taught film studies at the University of Iowa, The Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Birkbeck College/British Film Institute, Jadavpur University, University of Bombay, and the National Film Archive of India/Film and Television Institute of India.
Awards and Fellowships:
Jury member, National Film Awards (Feature Films), New Delhi, 1995.
Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (1989-91).
Selection Committee Member, First Festival of Short and Documentary Films, Bombay, 1990.
Publications:
Books
co-edited with Paul Willemen, Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema, (British Film Institute and OUP, 1994).
edited, The Sad and Glad of Kishore Kumar, edited (Research Centre for Cinema Studies, 1988).
co-edited with Amrit Gangar, Ghatak : Arguments/Stories (Screen Unit/Research Centre for Cinema Studies, 1987).
co-edited with Marco Muller, L'Avventurose Storie del Cinema Indiano (2 vols., in Italian) (Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, 1985).
Ritwik Ghatak: A Return to the Epic (Screen Unit, 1982).
edited with Rani Burra, Looking Back, 1896-1960 (Directorate of Film Festivals/Film India Retrospective of Indian Cinema, 1981).
Essay collection entitled Who's Looking? ( forthcoming).
Articles
Essays in the Journal of Arts and Ideas ( Courtesy:
1. On Godard
(no. 2: Jan-Mar 1983) Link
2. Gandhiana and Gandhiology
( no. 3: April-June 1983) Link
3. Of More Than A Certain Tendency In The Indian Cinema
(no. 5: Oct-Dec 1983) Link
4. Latin American Cinema: Political Cinema
(no. 10-11: Jan-June 1985) Link
5. The Phalke Era: Conflict of Traditional Form and Modern Technology
(no. 14-15: July-Dec 1987) Link
6. Living The Tradition
(no. 16: Jan-Mar 1988) Link
7. Beaming Messages to the Nation
(no. 19: May 1990) Link
8. Satyajit Ray, Ray's Films and Ray-movie
(no. 23-24: Jan 1993) Link
9. The Epic Melodrama: Themes of Nationality in Indian Cinema
(no. 25-26: Dec 1993) Link
10. 'The Judgement': Re-forming the Public
(no. 32-33: April 1999) Link
(From Digital South Asia Library)