BioScope

BioScope Volume 15 Issue 1, June 2024

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 15. no. 1. This issue of BioScope features essays, interviews, and translations that focus on phantasmatic remediations of celebrities and media platforms, language and music. Ishani Dey explores an intriguing relay between cinema and TikTok. She presents two case studies to illustrate the ways in which cell…
BioScope Volume 14 Issue 1, June 2023

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 14. no. 1. The contributions to BioScope 14.1 place Indian cinema in the field of moral, reformist and democratic ideals, suggesting an enduring hold of a notion of the political on film journalism, spectatorship and star phenomenon. Ambili Anna Markose’s article charts the exceptional career of K.J.…
BioScope Volume 13 Issue 1, June 2022

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 13. no. 1. The new issue of Bioscope has a special section on Media in the Pandemic. Pallavi Paul considers the media form of viral analysis, and different types of information-gathering and speculation that challenge the authority of medical expertise; Anirban Baishya looks at drone use during lockdown and the death-ravaged…
BioScope Volume 12 Issue 1-2, June & December 2021

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 12. no. 1-2. The Keywords Issue marks 10 years of BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies. We first conceived of this special issue in 2018 when we were nearing our 10th anniversary. At the time, the editorial group sought a celebratory stock-taking – a means of noting the…
BioScope Volume 11 Issue 2, December 2020

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 11. no. 2. ‘Can I share my screen?’ asks someone in a meeting. They fumble with the buttons. We move from a close shot of their face, inside the contours of their domestic background, and arrive jerkily onto their desktop. In the foreground is their presentation, hastily…
BioScope Volume 11 Issue 1, June 2020

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 11. no. 1. This special issue is a step towards mapping a different landscape. It features filmmakers from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan working in fiction and, in a few instances, documentary cinema, with feature-length and short films. The focus and scope are…
BioScope Volume 10 Issue 2, December 2019

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 10. no. 2. This issue of Bioscope explores the televisual, whereby the mission of television goes beyond the medium and becomes a central node of information and cultural flows in the nation. Expanding on the notion of television, with its historical antecedents in print, radio, cinema and…
BioScope Volume 10 Issue 1, June 2019

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope vol. 10. no. 1. With the winds of authoritarianism sweeping across democracies in South Asia as elsewhere, the question of how to articulate the new social and political contexts in which we find ourselves is as urgent as ever. Censorship, surveillance and populism have taken on new, changed…
BioScope Volume 9 Issue 2, December 2018

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope Vol. 9. No. 2. With every passing year, there is a mounting evidence of the inextricable links between what was once the cinema and a host of other media forms. This situation presents an interesting set of challenges to students of contemporary cinema, often requiring them to…
BioScope Volume 9 Issue 1, June 2018

We’re happy to announce the publication of BioScope Vol. 9. No. 1. The articles in this issue of BioScope explore the ongoing conundrum of how to access historical spectatorship when records are scarce or non-existent. Our authors examine traces left on radio-listening in small town India, letters in Bangladeshi film magazines, emotionally charged memories linked…