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About Arya Rani
Arya Rani is Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College. She has contributed chapters to an edited anthologies published by Routledge and McFarland Books. Her research interests include Global Cinema, Film/TV Comedy, and Visual Anthropology. As a filmmaker, Rani focuses on the narratives of immigrant life and frequently experiments with film form and style.NBN Episodes hosted by Arya:
October 15, 2025
Women and Global Documentary
Women and Global Documentary: Practices and Perspectives in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025), edited by Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi and Shilyh J…
November 14, 2024
The Ethnographic Optic
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) explores the significan…
November 9, 2024
Exotic Cinema
Daniela Berghahn's award-winning monograph Exotic Cinema: Encounters with Cultural Difference in Contemporary Transnational Film (Edinburgh UP, 2023) …
January 5, 2024
Marx for Cats
At the outset of Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke UP, 2023), Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” …