Current State: Published

S.V. Srinivas is a Senior Fellow at CSCS and coordinator of the Culture: Industries and Diversity in Asia (CIDASIA) research programme. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad. He is interested in production and consumption of industrially produced cultures.

 

Academic Qualifications

• 1997: Ph.D., Department of English, Hyderabad University.

• 1991: M.Phil., Department of English, Hyderabad University

• 1989: M.A., Department of English, Hyderabad University.
• 1987: B.A. (Hons), St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.
  

 

Publications:

 

Books

 

• Megastar: Chiranjeevi and Telugu Cinema after N.T. Rama Rao. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2009.
  

 

Edited Conference Proceedings Volume

• Culture Industries, Cultural Diversity and Cultural Policy in the Time of Globalization. Proceedings of the Consultation held on 28-29 September 2007. Centre for the Study of Culture and Society & Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. December 2008.
  

 

Website
Hong Kong Action Film at the Frontiers of Cinema

 

Articles

 

• Film Market and the Telugu Nation." Lensight: A Bi-Lingual Journal of Film and Media. Vol. I, Issue 1. March-September 2009.
  
• "Missing in the Original: Twin Dragons Remade in India." Journal of the Moving Image. No. 7. December 2008.
  
• “Cardboard Monuments: City, Language and ‘Nation’ in Contemporary Telugu Cinema.” Journal of Tropical Geography. No. 29. Spl. Issue on Cinematic Representation of the Tropical City. 2008.

•  “Persistence of the Feudal: Star and Film Form in Post 1970s Telugu Cinema.” Journal of the Moving Image. No. 5. December 2006.

•  “Stars and Mobilization in South India: What have films got to do with it?” Post Script. Spl. Issue on Indian Cinema. Vol. 25, No. 3, Summer 2006.

• “Kung Fu Hustle: A note on the local.” Inter Asia Cultural Studies. Vol. 6, No. 2, 2005.
• “Hong Kong Action Film and the Career of the Telugu Mass Hero.” In Meaghan Morris ed. Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema. Hong Kong/Durham: Hong Kong University Press/Duke University Press, 2005.

• “Film Culture, Politics and Industry.” Seminar, Issue on Unsettling Cinema, No. 525, May 2003.

•  “Hong Kong Action Film in the Indian B Circuit.” Inter Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2003.

• “Citizens and Subjects of Telugu Cinema.” Deep Focus, March 2002.
• "Telugu Cinema: N.T. Rama Rao and After." Lalit Mohan Joshi (ed) Contemporary South Asian Film and Television: A Survey. Web version published in 2002. Print version forthcoming.
  

• “Telugu Folklore Films: The Case of Patala Bhairavi.” Deep Focus, Vol. IX, No. 9, 2001.

•  “Is there a Public in the Cinema Hall?” Framework 42 (online edition), October 2000.
• “Devotion and Defiance in Fan Activity.” Ravi S. Vasudevan, ed. Making Meaning in Indian Cinema. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. View earlier version published in the Journal of Arts and Ideas here.
  

•  “Gandhian Nationalism and Melodrama in the 30’s Telugu Cinema.” Journal of the Moving Image, no. 1, Autumn, 1999.
• "Fans, Families and Censorship: The Alluda Majaka Controversy." Journal of Arts and Ideas, no.s 32-33, April 1999.