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About Arya Rani
Arya Rani is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her dissertation looks at the politics and aesthetics of B-roll shots in cinema. She has contributed chapters to an edited anthology on the show Bojack Horseman, a forthcoming publication by McFarland in Fall 2023, and an edited anthology on Indian Indie cinema, a forthcoming publication by Routledge. 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.Arya Rani is a PhD candidate in Film Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
NBN Episodes hosted by Arya:
November 14, 2024
The Ethnographic Optic
Laure Astourian
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Arya Rani
The Ethnographic Optic: Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and the Turn Inward in 1960s French Cinema (Indiana UP, 2024) traces the surprising r…
November 9, 2024
Exotic Cinema
Daniela Berghahn
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Arya Rani
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
Leigh Claire La Berge
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Arya Rani
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.” …