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Lakshmi Srinivas

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: 617.287.6260

Email: Lakshmi.Srinivas@umb.edu

Department: GISD - Dean's Office

Areas of Expertise

Culture, Ethnography, Comparative Sociology, Visual Sociology, Everyday Life, Sociality, Class and Inequality, Consumer Society, Media Consumption and Production, Audiences and Reception, Indian Cinema, South Asia/India

Degrees

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • Srinivas, L. 2017. “One by Two.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 40(2): 370-372.

  • Srinivas, L. 2016. “House Full. Indian Cinema and the Active Audience.” University of Chicago Press. Reviewed in: American Journal of Sociology, Symbolic Interaction, Visual Anthropology, South Asian Ethnology, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

  • Srinivas, L. 2013. “The Active Audience and the Experience of Cinema.” Pp.377-390 in Moti Gokulsing et al (eds). Handbook of Indian Cinemas, Routledge, London, 2013. [Lead chapter]

  • Srinivas, L. 2010. “Ladies Queues, ‘Roadside Romeos’ and Balcony Seating: Ethnographic Observations on Women’s Cinema-going Experiences.” Journal of South Asian Popular Culture. 8 (3): 291-307. Reprinted in Sara Dickey and Rajinder Dudrah (eds.), South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens, Routledge, London, 2012, Pp. 83-99.

  • Srinivas, L. 2010. "Cinema Halls, Locality and Urban Life." Ethnography. 11 (1): 189-205

  • Srinivas, L. 2010. "Cinema in the City: Tangible Forms, Transformations and the Punctuation of Everyday Life." Visual Anthropology, 23 (1): 1-12. [Lead article. Selected for Editor’s Choice].

  • Srinivas, L. 2010. “Nonsense as Sense-Making: Negotiating Globalization in Bombay Cinema.” Pp. 1-19 in Michael Curtin et al (eds). Re-Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. Champaigne: University of Illinois Press. [Lead chapter]

  • Srinivas, L. 2005. "Imaging the Audience." Journal of South Asian Popular Culture. 3 (2): 101–116.

  • Srinivas, L. 2005. "Communicating Globalization in Bombay Cinema: Everyday life, Imagination and the Persistence of the Local." Comparative American Studies. 3 (3):319-344.

  • Srinivas, L. 2003. “The Musical Formula: Song and Dance in Popular Indian Film.” Pp. 185-188 in Judy Mitoma et al., Envisioning Dance in Film and Video, Routledge, London.

Additional Information

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