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Ranjani Mazumdar

Ranjani Mazumdar

Ranjani Mazumdar is Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her publications focus on urban cultures, popular cinema, gender and the cinematic city. She is the author of Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City (2007) and co-editor with Neepa Majumdar of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema. Her current research focuses on globalization and film culture, and the intersection of technology, travel, design and colour in 1960s Bombay Cinema.

no. 3, Threads, vol. 4November 1, 2019<November 2, 2019

The Mumbai Slum: Aerial Views and Embodied Memories

In this third and final part of our Slums series, Ranjani Mazumdar discusses two recent films that have created "embodied cartographies" of Mumbai's Dharavi.

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  • About Us
    • Mission Statement
    • Editors
      • Lawrence Webb
      • Elizabeth Patton
      • Noelle Griffis
      • Scott Rodgers
    • Editorial Board
    • Advisory Board
    • Our Partners
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
    • Volume 1 – 2015/2016
      • № 1 – December 2015
      • № 2 – March 2016
      • № 3 – June 2016
      • № 4 – August 2016
      • № 5 – November 2016
    • Volume 2 – 2017
      • № 1 – January/February 2017
      • № 2 – June 2017
      • № 3 – September 2017
      • № 4 – October/November 2017
      • № 5 – December 2017
    • Volume 3 – 2018
      • № 1 – January/February 2018
      • № 2 – June 2018
      • № 3 – August/September 2018
      • № 4 – October/November 2018
    • Volume 4 – 2019
      • № 1 – January/February 2019
      • № 2 – June 2019
      • № 3 – October/November 2019
    • Volume 5 – 2020
      • Vol. 5 № 1
      • Vol. 5 № 2
      • Vol. 5 № 3
      • Vol. 5 № 4
    • Volume 6 – 2021
      • Vol. 6 № 1
      • Vol. 6 № 2
      • Vol. 6 № 3
      • Vol. 6 № 4
    • Volume 7 – 2022
      • Vol. 7 № 1
      • Vol. 7, № 2
  • Resources
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      • 2016 Workshop Proposal
      • Sponsored Events
    • Conference Presentations
      • 2008 – Philadelphia
      • 2009 – Tokyo
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    • From the Archive
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