Papers by Tilottama Karlekar
Precarity, Innovation, and Survival in the Indian Film Festival Sector, 2023
Film festivals have emerged as vital, thriving cultural and political spaces in twenty-first-cent... more Film festivals have emerged as vital, thriving cultural and political spaces in twenty-first-century India, with a vast range of new festivals displacing the decades-long dominance of the state-sponsored International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Ranging from corporate-sponsored, industry-centric film festivals like the Jio MAMI festival in Mumbai to small, grassroots festivals in remote rural regions like the Jharkhand Film Festival, this festival expansion parallels global trends (De Valck 2007; Iordanova and Rhyne 2009; Wong 2011). Alternative, community, and activist film festivals have become significant and visible, engaging new audiences not just in the big cities but in smaller towns and remote rural regions (Rangan 2010; Kishore 2018; Basu and Banerjee 2018). In a deeply divided India marked by intensifying authoritarianism, this increased visibility has engendered controversy and, often, censorship. With scarce financial support, alternative festivals also contend with differing forms of state and mob coercion. Despite their vibrancy and visibility, then, activist festivals remain
Feminist Media Studies
Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting timepressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating s... more Yoga gurus on lifestyle cable channels targeting timepressured Indian urbanites; Chinese dating shows promoting competitive individualism; Taiwanese domestic makeover formats combining feng shui with life planning advice: Asian TV screens are increasingly home to a wild proliferation of popular factual programs providing lifestyle guidance to viewers. In Telemodernities Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun demonstrate how lifestyleoriented popular factual television illuminates key aspects of late modernities in South and East Asia, offering insights not only into early twentyfirstcentury media cultures but also into wider developments in the nature of public and private life, identity, citizenship, and social engagement. Drawing on extensive interviews with television industry professionals and audiences across China, India, Taiwan, and Singapore, Telemodernities uses popular lifestyle television as a tool to help us understand emergent forms of identity, sociality, and capitalist modernity in Asia.
South Asian History and Culture
Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, 2011
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Papers by Tilottama Karlekar