Anustup Basu

Assistant Professor of English and
Cinema Studies

Office: 102C English
Office Phone: 333-0426

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Courses

ENGLISH 273: INTERMEDIATE FILM STUDIES

ENGLISH 199: UNDERGRADUATE OPEN SEMINAR TOPIC: (Section Q1): The Literary and the Cinematic

ENGLISH 117: SHAKESPEARE ON FILM

Teaching Interests

Film Theory and Criticism, Cinemas of Globality, Postcolonial Cinemas, Classical Hollywood, New Media and Critical Theory.

Specializations

Indian and Third Cinema, Classical Hollywood, Philosophies of New Media, Postcolonial and Globalization theories

Publications

“Mantras of the Metropole: Digital Inscription and Mythic Curvatures of Profane Time in Rudraksh” (forthcoming in Postscript 2005); “The Music of Intolerable Love: Political Conjugality and Dil Se” (forthcoming in Planet Bollywood: The Transnational Travels of Hindi Song-and-Dance Sequences, University of Minnesota Press, 2005); “The Human and His Spectacular Autumn, or, Informatics After Philosophy” (Postmodern Culture, 2004); “Bombs and Bytes: Sovereign Power and Global Information Flows” (Mute, 2004); “State of Security and Warfare of Demons” (Critical Quarterly, 2003).

Work in Progress

Two essays: “Power/Informatics: The Afterlife of Michel Foucault in the Age of New Media”; and “The Unblinking Subject and the City as Screen”; Two book projects, one on Contemporary Indian Cinema, Sovereignty, and Globalization, and the other on Questions of Sovereignty in the Age of Planetary New Media.