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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Samhita Sunya, "Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay" (U California Press, 2022)
Description: Hello, world! This is the Global Media & Communication podcast series.In this inaugural episode, our host Aswin Punathambekar speaks with Samhita Sunya, the author of the book Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay (U California Press, 2022).In this episode you’ll hear about:
Dr. Sunya’s intellectual trajectory in studying South Asian cinema from Houston to Bangalore, Bombay, and beyond;
How the periodization of the “long” 1960s – bookended by the 1955 Bandung Afro-Asian Conference and the 1975 Indian Emergency – comes into view through the author’s interdisciplinary approach;
How Dr. Sunya works her way through and out of a popul...