Professor Neves publishes book on Asian Video Cultures with Duke University Press

Dr. Joshua Neves published a new edited volume, Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global (Duke University Press). The collection, co-edited with Dr. Bhaskar Sarkar (UC Santa Barbara), examines video across Asia—from video platforms in Indonesia to amateur music videos in India—in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures, showing how Asian video practices are central to shaping contemporary experiences and mainstream global media.

“Asian Video Cultures addresses a glaring omission in contemporary Western film and media scholarship in such a rich and imaginative way that it will give the book lasting significance as a fundamental reference across media studies. Featuring rich, thought-provoking essays and a major, agenda-setting introduction, this is a milestone collection.”—Meaghan Morris, coeditor of Gender, Media, and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific

Contributors. Conerly Casey, Jenny Chio, Michelle Cho, Kay Dickinson, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Feng-Mei Heberer, Tzu-hui Celina Hung, Rahul Mukherjee, Joshua Neves, Bhaskar Sarkar, Nishant Shah, Abhigyan Singh, SV Srinivas, Marc Steinberg, Chia-chi Wu, Patricia Zimmerman

About The Author(s)

Joshua Neves is Assistant Professor of Film Studies and Canada Research Chair at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University.

Bhaskar Sarkar is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the author of Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, also published by Duke University Press.

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