Shohini Ghosh is the Sajjad Zaheer Professor of media at the

AJK Mass Communication Research Center A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre (AJK MCRC) is a mass communication research centre located in New Delhi, India and a constituent institute of the Jamia Millia Islamia. The full form for AJK MCRC is Anwar Jamal Kidwai Mass Communic ...

Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia () is a central university located in New Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla in ...

. She is an essayist on popular culture and a documentary filmmaker. In a 2007 interview at the University of Minnesota, she provided reflections on her life and work.

Early life and education

Ghosh received master's degrees from the MCRC and from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to ...

, and was a visiting professor at Cornell from 1990 to 1996. She spent time as a fellow at the

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, and taught as part of a variety of programs on sexuality, culture and society during the 1990s.From he
AJK MCRC biography
Ghosh began her documentary film work around that time, co-founding the Mediastorm Collective, an all-women documentary collective which in 1992 received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Work among Women Media Professionals. In 1998 she worked with Sabeena Gadihoke on '' Three Women and a Camera''.

Recent works

In 2002, Ghosh produced her first independent documentary, Tales of the Night Fairies, which won a Best Film award at Jeevika 2003 and was shown in 13 countries. She has published a number of academic papers on gender, violence against women, and censorship in India, including "Censorship Myths and Imagined Harms" and "Looking in Fascination and Horror, Sex Violence and Spectatorship in India". Her most recent monograph on the film

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published by Arsenal Pulp Press is one of the first book length studies on this field defining film. In 2021, she was one of the participants in

John Greyson John Greyson (born March 13, 1960) is a Canadian director, writer, video artist, producer, and political activist, whose work frequently deals with queer characters and themes. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge in ...

's experimental short documentary film ''

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''.Sarah Jae Leiber
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'', March 29, 2021.

References

External links

* Her MCR
biography
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosh, Shohini Indian documentary filmmakers Living people Indian women film directors Indian feminists Year of birth missing (living people) Women documentary filmmakers Academic staff of Jamia Millia Islamia