Talk:Priya Jaikumar

Priya Jaikumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Cinematic Arts, at the Department of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California, as of November 2022. According to her university profile, her research Interests Include Colonial and Postcolonial Cinemas, Film Theory and Historiography, Spatial Studies, Environmental and Elemental Media, South Asia, and Transnational Feminism.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications Related to India

Books

1. Jaikumar, Priya. Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space. Duke University Press, 2019.
2. Jaikumar, Priya. Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India. Duke University Press, 2006. Full text available at: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=625239.

Edited Project

1. Jaikumar, Priya, and Kay Dickinson, editors. “Teaching Cinema and Media Studies Against the Contemporary Global Right.” Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, Aug. 2018. http://www.teachingmedia.org/teaching-film-and-media-against-the-global-right/.

Selected Publications

1. Jaikumar, Priya. “Feminist and Non-Western Interrogations of Authorship.” In Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, edited by Kristin Hole et al., Routledge, 2017, pp. 206-214.
2. Jaikumar, Priya. “Hospitality in the Time of Regulation: Films Division Tourism Shorts from the 1970s.” MARG, vol. 70, no. 1, Sep.-Dec. 2018.
3. Jaikumar, Priya. “Out of Sync: Gendered Location Sound Work in Bollywood.” Sounding Out!, 2017. https://soundstudiesblog.com/2017/11/06/out-of-syncgendered-location-sound-work-in-bollywood/.
4. Jaikumar, Priya. “Haveli: A Cinematic Topos.” Positions, Feb. 2017, pp. 223-245.
5. Jaikumar, Priya. “Insurgent Place as Visual Space: Location Shots and Rival Geographies of 1857 Lucknow.” In Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space, edited by Jennifer Bean et al., Indiana UP, 2014, pp. 47-70.
6. Jaikumar, Priya. “Slumdog Celebrities.” In The Slumdog Phenomenon: A Critical Anthology, edited by Ajay Gehlawat, Anthem Press, 2013, pp. 149-154.
7. Jaikumar, Priya. “Sabu’s Skins: The Transnational Stardom of an Elephant Boy.” Wasafari, vol. 22, no. 2, 2012, pp. 61-68.
8. Jaikumar, Priya. “Postface: On Teaching Postcolonialism and Cinema. Interview with Priya Jaikumar.” In Postcolonial Cinema Studies, edited by Marguerite Waller and Sandra Ponzanesi, Routledge, 2011, pp. 233-241.
9. Jaikumar, Priya. “An ‘Accurate Imagination’: Place, Map and Archive as Spatial Objects of Film History.” In Empire and Film, edited by Lee Grieveson and Colin McCabe, BFI Publishing, 2011, pp. 167-188.
10. Jaikumar, Priya. “A Dialogue on The River (Jean Renoir, 1951).” In Outsider Films on India, 1950-1990, edited by Shanay Jhaveri, I.B. Taurus, 2009, pp. 17-47.
11. Jaikumar, Priya. “Translating Silences: A Cinematic Encounter with Incommensurable Difference.” In Transnational Feminism in Film and Media, edited by Katarzyna Marciniak et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 207-226.
12. Jaikumar, Priya. “Terrorism and the Politics of Film Language: Mani Rathnam’s Kannathil Muthamittal.” Post Script, vol. 25, no. 3, Summer 2006, pp. 48-64.
13. Jaikumar, Priya. “Hollywood and the Multiple Constituencies of Colonial India.” In Hollywood Abroad: Audiences, Reception and Cultural Exchange, edited by Richard Maltby and Melvyn