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Moinak Biswas
Born
🏳️ Nationality India
🏳️ CitizenshipIndian
🏫 EducationPh.D. 2002 Monash University

M.Phil. 1992 Jadavpur University M.A. 1985 Jadavpur University

B.A. 1983 Jadavpur University
💼 Occupation
Academician, Scholar, Filmmaker, Author
Known forSthaniya Sambaad
TitleProfessor of Film Studies
👴 👵 Parent(s)
🏅 AwardsBest Feature Film Award for film 'Sthaniya Sambaad', Frank and Cindy Liu Distinguished Visitor

Moinak Biswas (Bengali:মৈনাক বিশ্বাস) is an Indian film scholar, author and filmmaker. He is a Professor Emerita and the Coordinator of The Media Lab at Kolkata's Jadavpur University.[1][2][3][4]

Works cited list[edit]

  • Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures Film and History in the Post colony by Rochona Majumdar.[5]
  • Uttam Kumar A Life in Cinema by Sayandeb Chowdhury.[6]
  • Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity by S Kar Chaudhuri and C. Chakravarty[7]
  • Conjugations Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema by Sangita Gopal.[8]
  • Bengali Cinema: An Other Nation by Sharmistha Gooptu.[9]
  • Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India by Lalitha Gopalan.[10]
  • Ideology of the Hindi Film A Historical Construction by M. Madhava Prasad.[11]
  • Being Bengali At Home and in the World by Mridula Nath Chakraborty.[12]
  • Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality: A History by Hrishikesh Sudhakar Ingle.[13]
  • Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism by Ewa Mazierska.[14]
  • A Companion to Indian Cinema by Neepa Majumdar, Ranjani Mazumdar.[15]
  • Provincialising Europe in South Asia: A reply to Moinak Biswas.[16]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Vision of a land: Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay's Bengal in Satyajit Ray's cinema.[17]
  • The Many Absences of Abbas Kiarostami.[18]
  • Ingmar Bergman's World of Dreams.[19]
  • For a Political Cinema to Come.[20][21]
  • Ritwik Ghatak and an Indian Project of Modernism.[22]
  • Coming to the City: Indian Cinema and Making of the Modern Self.[23]
  • Teaching Film Studies In India : Curricula and Crises.[24]
  • The Citizen's Journey and the Eternal Return.[25]
  • The City and the Real: Chinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1940s.[26]
  • Reason, Debate and a Tale.[27]

Publications[edit]

  • Apu and After: Re-visiting Ray's Cinema[28][29][30]
  • Historical Realism: Modes of Modernity in Indian Cinema, 1940-60.[31][32]
  • New Cinephilia.[33]
  • Mourning and Blood-Ties.[34]
  • Ujan gang baiya[4]

Filmography[edit]

Year Film Director Writer Ref.
2009 Sthaniya Sambaad Yes Yes [35][36][37]
2016 Across the Burning Track Yes Yes [38]

References[edit]

  1. "Biswas, Moinak". SAGE Publications Inc. 2022-08-11. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  2. "'In East Pakistan, Partition was seen as a good thing'". DNA India. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  3. FilmiClub. "Moinak Biswas - Biography, Movies, Photos, Videos". FilmiClub. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Moinak Biswas". Take Art Magazine. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  5. Majumdar, Rochona (2021). Art cinema and India's forgotten futures : film and history in the postcolony. New York. ISBN 978-0-231-55390-2. OCLC 1246672915. Search this book on
  6. Chowdhury, Sayandeb (2021). Uttam Kumar : a Life in Cinema. New Delhi. ISBN 978-93-90358-01-4. OCLC 1280049364. Search this book on
  7. Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman : the Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity. Chandrava Chakravarty, Sneha Kar Chaudhuri (1st ed.). New Delhi. 2017. ISBN 978-93-81345-28-3. OCLC 989061843. Search this book on
  8. Gopal, Sangita (2011). Conjugations : Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema. Chicago. ISBN 978-0-226-30427-4. OCLC 772845698. Search this book on
  9. Gooptu, Sharmistha (2018). Bengali Cinema. Delhi: Roli Books. ISBN 978-81-937049-5-0. OCLC 1252423949. Search this book on
  10. Gopalan, Lalitha (2020). Cinemas dark and slow in digital India. Basingstoke. ISBN 978-3-030-54096-8. OCLC 1237558382. Search this book on
  11. Prasad, M. Madhava (2000). Ideology of the Hindi film : a historical construction. Delhi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-565295-9. OCLC 46816596. Search this book on
  12. Being Bengali : at home and in the world. Mridula Nath Chakraborty. London: Routledge. 2014. ISBN 978-1-315-81911-2. OCLC 875098666. Search this book on
  13. Ingle, Hrishikesh Sudhakar (2022-08-01). Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality: A History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-267593-4. Search this book on
  14. Third cinema, world cinema and Marxism. Ewa Mazierska, Lars Lyngsgaard Fjord Kristensen. New York. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5013-4829-7. OCLC 1175923172. Search this book on
  15. MAJUMDAR, NEEPA (2021). COMPANION TO INDIAN CINEMA. [S.l.]: WILEY-BLACKWELL. ISBN 978-1-119-04819-0. OCLC 1236850780. Search this book on
  16. Chakrabarty, Dipesh (2002-08-01). "Provincialising Europe in South Asia: A reply to Moinak Biswas". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 25 (2): 281–282. doi:10.1080/00856400208723486. ISSN 0085-6401. Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  17. "Satyajit Ray's Political Vision of the Doubly Colonized", The Cinema of Satyajit Ray, Cambridge University Press, pp. 177–212, 2000-01-13, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139173148.005, ISBN 9780521629805, retrieved 2022-08-21
  18. "The Many Absences of Abbas Kiarostami". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  19. "Ingmar Bergman's World of Dreams". The Wire. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  20. "For a Political Cinema to Come". Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (33): 7–8. 2015-06-05.
  21. BISWAS, MOINAK (2014). "For a Political Cinema to Come". Economic and Political Weekly. 49 (33): 23–26. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 24480442.
  22. Biswas, Moinak (2021-01-01). "Ritwik Ghatak and an Indian Project of Modernism". Take Art Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  23. "Moinak Biswas, Coming to the City: Indian Cinema and Making of the Modern Self — Centre for the Study of Culture and Society". cscs.res.in. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  24. https://jmionline.org/articles/2012/presentation_1_day_one__teaching_film_studies_in_india_curricula_and_crises.pdf
  25. "Her Mother's Son: Kinship and History in Ritwik Ghatak". www.rouge.com.au. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  26. "The City and the Real: Chinnamul and the Left Cultural Movement in the 1940s | Occasional Paper".
  27. "Reason, Debate and a Tale". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  28. Biśvāsa, Maināka; Biswas, Moinak (2006). Apu and After: Re-visiting Ray's Cinema. Seagull Books. ISBN 978-1-905422-26-5. Search this book on
  29. "9781905422265 - Apu and After Re-reading Ray's Cinema by Moinak Biswas".
  30. "APU AND AFTER: RE-VISITING RAY'S CINEMA By Moinak Biswas **BRAND NEW**". eBay. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  31. Biswas, Moinak (2002). Historical Realism: Modes of Modernity in Indian Cinema, 1940-60. Monash University. Search this book on
  32. Biswas, Moinak (2002). "Historical realism : modes of modernity in Indian cinema, 1940-60". Unknown parameter |s2cid= ignored (help)
  33. "Moinak Biswas - New Cinephilia | PDF | Cultural Studies | Filmmaking". Scribd. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  34. Biswas, Moinak (2016). "Mourning and Blood-Ties: Macbeth in Mumbai". In Kishore, Vikrant; Sarwal, Amit; Patra, Parichay. Salaam Bollywood. doi:10.4324/9781315625720. ISBN 9781317232865. Search this book on
  35. "New York Indian Film Festival 2011". iaac.us. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  36. "Sthaniya Sambaad (2009)". Indiancine.ma. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  37. "Event: Film Screening at TARQ | 'Sthaniya Sambaad' (Spring in the Colony)". TARQ. Retrieved 2022-08-21.
  38. "Across the Burning Track, a film by Moinak Biswas". southasia.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-21.

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