Ravi Vasudevan

Ravi Vasudevan is Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and works in the area of film and media history. With Ravi Sundaram, he directs Sarai, the CSDS media research programme, and with Srirupa Roy, the thematic module on media for the International Centre for Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP). His publications include Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (2000), The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (2010) and...See more

Ravi Vasudevan is Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and works in the area of film and media history. With Ravi Sundaram, he directs Sarai, the CSDS media research programme, and with Srirupa Roy, the thematic module on media for the International Centre for Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP). His publications include Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (2000), The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (2010) and Documentary Now (Marg special issue 2018). He is the founding editor of the screen studies journal BioScope . His current research is on the documentary film archive and the writing of history. See less