{"id":10281,"date":"2025-03-25T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=10281"},"modified":"2025-03-25T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:29:13","slug":"south-asia-affiliated-graduate-students-reimagine-indian-cinema-bollywood-and-urdu-film-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/south-asia-affiliated-graduate-students-reimagine-indian-cinema-bollywood-and-urdu-film-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"South Asia affiliated graduate students reimagine Indian cinema: Bollywood and Urdu film culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10283\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 198px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10283 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/Film_2-198x300.png\" alt=\"The Film Review, 1931\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/Film_2-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/Film_2-375x570.png 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/03\/Film_2.png 424w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Page of The Film Review discussing Bombay media.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/people\/amalie-goul-dueholm\/\">Amalie Goul Dueholm<\/a>, a recent graduate of the cinema &amp; media studies Ph.D. program and former affiliated student of the South Asia Center, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/people\/amaal-akhtar\/\">Amaal Akhtar<\/a>, a current affiliate of the center and Ph.D. student in history, have both recently published insightful works on <a href=\"https:\/\/post.moma.org\/\">post<\/a>, the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s online platform dedicated to exploring art and the history of modernism within a global context. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In her article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/post.moma.org\/a-vision-of-modern-india-social-messages-and-commodity-culture-in-new-bollywood\/\">A Vision of Modern India: Social Messages and Commodity Culture in New Bollywood<\/a>,&#8221; Goul Dueholm delves into the evolution of Bombay cinema since the 1990s. She explores Bollywood&#8217;s increasing commitment within the last 10 years to portraying narratives that center on subjects and experiences that were once marginalized in mainstream cinema.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Akhtar, meanwhile, shifts focus from Bombay\u2019s cinematic landscape to the realm of Urdu media in her piece &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/post.moma.org\/imagining-filmistan-urdu-magazines-and-the-film-bazaar-in-twentieth-century-india\/\">Imagining Filmistan: Urdu Magazines and the Film Bazaar in Twentieth-Century India<\/a>.&#8221; She examines the significant role that Urdu film magazines, such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Film Review<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Film Star<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Filmistan<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, played in shaping early film culture starting in the 1930s.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amalie Goul Dueholm, a recent graduate of the cinema &amp; 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