Moinak Biswas

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Moinak Biswas
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NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndia
EducationPh.D. 2002 Monash University

M.Phil. 1992 Jadavpur University M.A. 1985 Jadavpur University

B.A. 1983 Jadavpur University
Occupation
  • Academician
  • Scholar
  • Filmmaker
  • Author
Known forSthaniya Sambaad
TitleProfessor of Film Studies
Parent(s)
  • Hemanga Biswas (father)
AwardsBest Feature Film Award for film 'Sthaniya Sambaad', Frank and Cindy Liu Distinguished Visitor

Moinak Biswas is an Indian scholar of Film Studies. He is a Professor Emerita and the Coordinator of The Media Lab at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.[1][2][3]

Personal life

Biswas was born in West Bengal, India to Hemanga Biswas and Ranu Dutta. He studied at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and then Monash University, Australia. After serving a few years at Haldia Government College as a Lecturer of English, he joined joined Jadavpur University as a faculty in 1993. Later he went to Australia for doctoral research in Film Studies.

Works cited list

  • Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures Film and History in the Post colony by Rochona Majumdar.[4]
  • Uttam Kumar A Life in Cinema by Sayandeb Chowdhury.[5]
  • Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity by S Kar Chaudhuri and C. Chakravarty[6]
  • Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema by Sangita Gopal.[7]
  • Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation by Sharmistha Gooptu.[8]
  • Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India by Lalitha Gopalan.[9]
  • Ideology of the Hindi Film A Historical Construction by M. Madhava Prasad.[10]
  • Being Bengali At Home and in the World by Mridula Nath Chakraborty.[11]
  • Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality: A History by Hrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle.[12]
  • Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism by Ewa Mazierska.[13]
  • A Companion to Indian Cinema by Neepa Majumdar, Ranjani Mazumdar.[14]
  • Provincialising Europe in South Asia: A reply to Moinak Biswas.[15]

Bibliography

  • Vision of a land: Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay's Bengal in Satyajit Ray's cinema.[16]
  • The Many Absences of Abbas Kiarostami.[17]
  • Ingmar Bergman's World of Dreams.[18]
  • For a Political Cinema to Come.[19][20]
  • Ritwik Ghatak and an Indian Project of Modernism.[21]
  • Coming to the City: Indian Cinema and Making of the Modern Self.[22]
  • Teaching Film Studies In India : Curricula and Crises.[23]
  • The Citizen's Journey and the Eternal Return.[24]
  • The City and the Real: Chinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1940s.[25]
  • Reason, Debate and a Tale.[26]

Books written

  • Apu and After: Re-visiting Ray's Cinema[27][28][29]
  • Historical Realism: Modes of Modernity in Indian Cinema, 1940-60.[30][31]
  • New Cinephilia.[32]
  • Mourning and Blood-Ties.[33]

References

  1. ↑ "Biswas, Moinak". SAGE Publications Inc. 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  2. ↑ "'In East Pakistan, Partition was seen as a good thing'". DNA India. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  3. ↑ FilmiClub. "Moinak Biswas - Biography, Movies, Photos, Videos". FilmiClub. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  4. ↑ Majumdar, Rochona (2021). Art cinema and India's forgotten futures : film and history in the postcolony. New York. ISBN 978-0-231-55390-2. OCLC 1246672915.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ↑ Chowdhury, Sayandeb (2021). Uttam Kumar : a Life in Cinema. New Delhi. ISBN 978-93-90358-01-4. OCLC 1280049364.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman : the Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity. Chandrava Chakravarty, Sneha Kar Chaudhuri (1st ed.). New Delhi. 2017. ISBN 978-93-81345-28-3. OCLC 989061843.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. ↑ Gopal, Sangita (2011). Conjugations : Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema. Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-30427-4. OCLC 772845698.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Gooptu, Sharmistha (2018). Bengali Cinema. Delhi: Roli Books. ISBN 978-81-937049-5-0. OCLC 1252423949.
  9. ↑ Gopalan, Lalitha (2020). Cinemas dark and slow in digital India. Basingstoke. ISBN 978-3-030-54096-8. OCLC 1237558382.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  10. ↑ Prasad, M. Madhava (2000). Ideology of the Hindi film : a historical construction. Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-565295-9. OCLC 46816596.
  11. ↑ Being Bengali : at home and in the world. Mridula Nath Chakraborty. London: Routledge. 2014. ISBN 978-1-315-81911-2. OCLC 875098666.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  12. ↑ Ingle, Hrishikesh Sudhakar (2022-08-01). Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-267593-4.
  13. ↑ Third cinema, world cinema and Marxism. Ewa Mazierska, Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen. New York. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5013-4829-7. OCLC 1175923172.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ↑ MAJUMDAR, NEEPA (2021). COMPANION TO INDIAN CINEMA. [S.l.]: WILEY-BLACKWELL. ISBN 978-1-119-04819-0. OCLC 1236850780.
  15. ↑ Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2002-08-01). "Provincialising Europe in South Asia: A reply to Moinak Biswas". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 25 (2): 281–282. doi:10.1080/00856400208723486. ISSN 0085-6401.
  16. ↑ "Satyajit Ray's Political Vision of the Doubly Colonized", The Cinema of Satyajit Ray, Cambridge University Press, pp. 177–212, 2000-01-13, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139173148.005, ISBN 9780521629805, retrieved 2022-08-21
  17. ↑ "The Many Absences of Abbas Kiarostami". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  18. ↑ "Ingmar Bergman's World of Dreams". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  19. ↑ "For a Political Cinema to Come". Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (33): 7–8. 2015-06-05.
  20. ↑ BISWAS, MOINAK (2014). "For a Political Cinema to Come". Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (33): 23–26. ISSN 0012-9976.
  21. ↑ Biswas, Moinak (2021-01-01). "Ritwik Ghatak and an Indian Project of Modernism". Take Art Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  22. ↑ "Moinak Biswas, Coming to the City: Indian Cinema and Making of the Modern Self — Centre for the Study of Culture and Society". cscs.res.in. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  23. ↑ https://jmionline.org/articles/2012/presentation_1_day_one__teaching_film_studies_in_india_curricula_and_crises.pdf
  24. ↑ "Her Mother's Son: Kinship and History in Ritwik Ghatak". www.rouge.com.au. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  25. ↑ "The City and the Real: Chinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1940s | Occasional Paper". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  26. ↑ "Reason, Debate and a Tale". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  27. ↑ Biśvāsa, Maināka; Biswas, Moinak (2006). Apu and After: Re-visiting Ray's Cinema. Seagull Books. ISBN 978-1-905422-26-5.
  28. ↑ https://www.biblio.com/9781905422265
  29. ↑ "APU AND AFTER: RE-VISITING RAY'S CINEMA By Moinak Biswas **BRAND NEW**". eBay. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  30. ↑ Biswas, Moinak (2002). Historical Realism: Modes of Modernity in Indian Cinema, 1940-60. Monash University.
  31. ↑ Biswas, Moinak (2002). "Historical realism : modes of modernity in Indian cinema, 1940-60". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  32. ↑ "Moinak Biswas - New Cinephilia | PDF | Cultural Studies | Filmmaking". Scribd. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  33. ↑ Biswas, Moinak (2016). "Mourning and Blood-Ties: Macbeth in Mumbai". In Kishore, Vikrant; Sarwal, Amit; Patra, Parichay (eds.). Salaam Bollywood. doi:10.4324/9781315625720. ISBN 9781317232865.

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