Lakshmi Srinivas

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 16
Telephone: 617-287-6250
Email: lakshmi.srinivas@umb.edu

Research
Media and Popular Culture, Media Reception, Spectatorship, Public Culture, Consumption, Globalization, Ethnography, Bollywood Cinema

Representative Publications
Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2005. Imaging the Audience. Journal of South Asian Popular Culture. Vol. 3, No. 2, (October): 101-116.

Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2005. Communicating Globalization in Bombay Cinema: Everyday life, imagination and the persistence of the local. Comparative American Studies. Vol. 3, No.3, (October): 319-344

Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2002. The Active Audience: Spectatorship, social relations and the experience of cinema in India.  Media, Culture and Society. Vol.24:1. 155-173.

Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2002. The Musical Formula: Song and dance in popular Indian film. In Envisioning Dance on Film and Video. Pp. 185-188. Ed. Judy Mitoma, UCLA National Dance Media Project. Routledge.

Srinivas, Lakshmi. 1998. Active Viewing: An ethnography of the Indian film audience. Visual Anthropology, Vol.11, No.4:323-353.