About Priyam Sinha

Priyam Sinha earned her PhD in South Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore. She has interdisciplinary academic interests that lie at the intersection of critical media industry studies, gender studies, disability studies, production cultures, cultural studies and the sociology of labour. She can be reached at https://twitter.com/PriyamSinh...

Priyam Sinha is a doctoral candidate in the South Asian Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore.

NBN Episodes hosted by Priyam:

Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray, "Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

October 7, 2024

Resistance in Indian Documentary Film

Shweta Kishore and Kunal Ray
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Dr. Shweta Kishore and Dr Kunal Ray’s Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice (Edinburgh UP, 2024) is a unique collect…

Salma Siddique, "Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

September 14, 2024

Evacuee Cinema

Salma Siddique
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960 (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers a new history of the partition. Based on previously unex…

Darshana Sreedhar Mini, "Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India" (U California Press, 2024)

July 7, 2024

Rated A

Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema…

Swapnil Rai, "Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

June 29, 2024

Networked Bollywood

Swapnil Rai
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Swapnil Rai’s book Networked Bollywood: How Star Power Globalized Hindi Cinema (Cambridge UP, 2024) brilliantly navigates the intricate landscapes of …

Ishita Tiwary, "Video Culture in India: The Analog Era" (Oxford UP, 2024)

June 26, 2024

Video Culture in India

Ishita Tiwary
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Ishita Tiwary’s book Video Culture in India: The Analog Era (Oxford UP, 2024) is an unprecedented attempt in foregrounding the diverse media history o…

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, "Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)

June 17, 2024

Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay’s book Sound in Indian Film and Audiovisual Media: History, Practices and Production (Amsterdam UP, 2023) is an exhaustive at…

Bishnupriya Ghosh, "The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media" (Duke UP, 2023)

April 10, 2024

The Virus Touch

Bishnupriya Ghosh
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

In The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media (Duke UP. 2023), Bishnupriya Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations bet…

Kartik Nair, "Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror" (U California Press, 2024)

February 14, 2024

Seeing Things

Kartik Nair
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

1980s Bombay was a time when a wave of low-budget, gory horror films made by independent film producers such as the Ramsay Brothers swept the B-movie …

Smith Mehta, "The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media" (British Film Institute, 2023)

October 15, 2023

The New Screen Ecology in India

Smith Mehta
Hosted by Priyam Sinha

In The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media (British Film Institute, 2023), Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of so…