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Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas

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Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas
The Culture of Movie-going after Stalin

Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas


Sudha Rajagopalan

Indian films and film stars were immensely popular with Soviet audiences from the mid-1950s through the end of the Soviet period. In this fascinating glimpse inside Cold War-era popular culture, Sudha Rajagopalan explores the consumption of Indian cinema in the USSR as a zone of negotiation and interaction between institutional actors, cultural mediators and movie audiences. Continue reading

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IAMHIST Masterclass: A PhD Student’s Perspective

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IAMHIST Masterclass on Media and History, January 15th 2010 (British Universities Film and Video Council, London): A PhD Student’s Perspective

Panel: Luke McKernan, Jo Fox, David Culbert, Leen Engelen, Roel Vande Winkel, Cindy Miller, Christine Whittaker, James Chapman and Nick Cull

The annual IAMHIST masterclass provides a unique forum for early career researchers and emerging media professionals to present their projects, and gain valuable feedback from a panel of leading media researchers and industry experts. Continue reading

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A Personal View of the 2009 IAMHIST Conference

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Aberystwyth, Wales

Aberystwyth, Wales

XXIII IAMHIST CONFERENCE, ABERYSTWYTH, WALES, JULY 8-11, 2009: SOCIAL FEARS AND MORAL PANICS

Any conference, to be a success, must take on some of the qualities of its location. Conferences are not abstract entities; they are defined as much by place and personality as they are by subject. So it was that the 2009 IAMHIST conference, which offered the enticing theme of social fears and moral panics, was coloured by being held in Aberystwyth on the Wales coast. Continue reading

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