https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1596993590133-FVH619TAIXJIHOL90FPF/IMG-5062.jpg Home https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/a-return-to-form monthly 0.5 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/3484b481-6fd4-4e67-b1fd-651f55ecd347/Return+to+Form+-+Final.jpg https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/camera-south-asia monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1239aeb7-3ea7-42c5-a462-96cd7d3ed254/Screenshot+2024-09-24+at+9.55.46%E2%80%AFAM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/763b7281-ec36-4e84-9610-b7ac6aba9c35/Camera+South+Asia+-+poster.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/bef15ad2-7056-481b-b43e-e1a0d21ddc5d/CSA-IV+-Save+the+date+%28Whatsapp%29+Option+2%281%29.jpg https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/asian-cinemas-anthology monthly 0.5 2024-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/6c5e1889-dd4d-4a0a-8216-b70977433c34/RCAC+cover.jpg https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/extractive-media monthly 0.5 2023-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/faddb275-00b8-4d32-b09e-454ce43bb064/Screen+Shot+2023-02-19+at+11.30.43+AM.jpg https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/city-maps-bombays-cineecology monthly 0.5 2021-07-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1625410687921-5NQENIM746IZ6MCICSUF/metamap.png WORK - City Maps: Bombay's Cine-Ecology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1625411876710-DO6SPQOWGC1QBLEZT3H8/studiomap.png WORK - City Maps: Bombay's Cine-Ecology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1625412104871-5ZYICQI6M7U1RT4VOMMV/precaritycity.png WORK - City Maps: Bombay's Cine-Ecology https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/news monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/studio-network-maps monthly 0.5 2020-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1609349394766-VCBEF55E1CDIIJXURJ89/Ranjit+Movitone_network+map.png WORK - Studio Network Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1609349535980-TWBO6Q45XN61AO4RLD8V/Sagar+Movietone_network+map.png WORK - Studio Network Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1609349625632-LAIAUEOJJ4CSUHU8WR0S/Bombay+Talkies_network+map.png WORK - Studio Network Maps https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/events monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1597065891015-GCF1A45C1CXB4UGU1VO3/Screen+Shot+2020-08-09+at+1.44.47+PM.png WORK - Events https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/bombayhustle monthly 0.5 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/1596241406111-A9HWENM2NACVUCYYI8AR/first+look_bombay+hustle.jpg WORK - Bombay Hustle - From starry-eyed fans with dreams of fame to cotton entrepreneurs turned movie moguls, the Bombay film industry has historically energized a range of practices and practitioners, playing a crucial and compelling role in the life of modern India. Bombay Hustle presents an ambitious history of Indian cinema as a history of material practice, bringing new insights to studies of media, modernity, and the late colonial city. Drawing on original archival research and an innovative transdisciplinary approach, I offer a panoramic portrait of the consolidation of the Bombay film industry during the talkie transition of the 1920s–1940s. In the decades leading up to independence in 1947, Bombay became synonymous with marketplace thrills, industrial strikes, and modernist experimentation. Its burgeoning film industry embodied Bombay’s spirit of “hustle,” gathering together and spewing out the many different energies and emotions that characterized the city. Bombay Hustle examines diverse sites of film production—finance, pre-production paperwork, casting, screenwriting, acting, stunts—to show how speculative excitement jostled against desires for scientific management in an industry premised on the struggle between contingency and control. I develop the concept of a “cine-ecology” in order to examine the bodies, technologies, and environments that collectively shaped the production and circulation of cinematic meaning in this time. The book thus brings into view a range of marginalized film workers, their labor and experiences; forgotten film studios, their technical practices and aesthetic visions; and overlooked connections among media practices, geographical particularities, and historical exigencies. You can buy the book here: Columbia University Press Amazon.in Amazon.com https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/projects monthly 0.5 2025-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/ef9c5c0d-6b9e-4c17-b03a-5faabcaf5124/Gupta%2Bhorizontal.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/27f0bfb2-6a73-4abf-9451-0ae6bc44a8eb/Oceanic%2BWorkshop%2BFlyer.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0b5a2b41d14a70ef2c33c2/8e046039-6665-4c4b-bff3-ce96dddd62f0/Inflamed+Publics+Horizontal.jpg WORK - Projects - Inflamed Publics I developed a two-year research project with Dr. Ying Qian from Columbia University and Dr. Laliv Melamed from the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, which wassponsored by a Humanities War and Peace Initiative Grant. Our topic was Inflamed Publics: A Sensory Study of Social Media, Violence, and Resistance. We are looking to actively build a resource network with academics, journalists, and activists who work on the themes outlined below. Towards this goal we held an online symposium from April 14-16, 2022. Full program here. From online troll armies to digital warriors, camouflage to infiltration, the techniques and affects of war pervade global digital cultures today via social media platforms such as Whatsapp, WeChat, Twitter, and TikTok. If older forms of war, as recorded in history and represented in art, produced fire and fury, then these new techniques of war are also incendiary, but the fires are at once virtual and real. This project seeks to understand the relation between everyday digital media technologies, image-making practices, and violence in the 21st century. This is a fundamentally comparative project, building on research on social media practices and cultures of affect and (dis)information across multiple countries. We seek to build a rigorous, interdisciplinary conversation on the uses and abuses of social media across geopolitical divides. Our goal is to bring insights from film and media studies, visual studies, and theories of affect and cognition to an urgent subject of global concern that is currently being studied mainly via social science and data science frameworks. While we wish to dialogue with these critical and urgent insights, we want to explore what might be achieved with a humanities toolkit. Thus, we will consider representation alongside industry, content alongside form, meaning alongside function, and the state alongside a nebulous publics. https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/archives monthly 0.5 2020-08-17 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/wildcat monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/teaching monthly 0.5 2020-08-10 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/publications monthly 0.5 2026-03-02 https://www.debashreemukherjee.com/work/wirsching-photo-book monthly 0.5 2023-02-19