Page of The Film Review discussing Bombay media.
Amalie Goul Dueholm, a recent graduate of the cinema & media studies Ph.D. program and former affiliated student of the South Asia Center, and Amaal Akhtar, a current affiliate of the center and Ph.D. student in history, have both recently published insightful works on post, the Museum of Modern Art’s online platform dedicated to exploring art and the history of modernism within a global context.
In her article, “A Vision of Modern India: Social Messages and Commodity Culture in New Bollywood,” Goul Dueholm delves into the evolution of Bombay cinema since the 1990s. She explores Bollywood’s increasing commitment within the last 10 years to portraying narratives that center on subjects and experiences that were once marginalized in mainstream cinema.
Akhtar, meanwhile, shifts focus from Bombay’s cinematic landscape to the realm of Urdu media in her piece “Imagining Filmistan: Urdu Magazines and the Film Bazaar in Twentieth-Century India.” She examines the significant role that Urdu film magazines, such as The Film Review, Film Star, and Filmistan, played in shaping early film culture starting in the 1930s.