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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

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

Degrees

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2010. Ladies queues, ‘Roadside Romeos’ and Balcony Seating: ethnographic observations on women’s cinema-going experiences. Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, Vol. 8, No. 3 (October): 291-307.

• Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2010. Cinema Halls, Locality and Urban Life. Ethnography. 11: 189-205.

• Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2010. Cinema in the City: tangible forms, transformations and the punctuation of everyday life. Visual Anthropology, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January): 1-12.

• Srinivas, Lakshmi. 2010. Nonsense as Sense-Making: Negotiating Globalization in Bombay Cinema. In Re-Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. Eds. Michael Curtin and Hemant Shah. University of Illinois Press.

• 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, No. 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.

Additional Information

View Professor Srinivas's Curriculum Vitae