Haven't heard huge praises for this book, but it's proving to be quite an enjoyable read. Definitely not the kind that demands two pairs of specs...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Sheffield Hallam University: Cultural, Economic, and Community Impact of Independent Cinema Exhibition: A Case Study of the Showroom Cinema and its Audiences 1994-present. findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

Ranajit Guha, a great historian is no more. Rest in peace great master.

Very happy to announce the online launch of the archive I have been working on for some time, featuring over 650 cinema qawwalis dating from 1939 to 2022. Supported by India Foundation for the Arts - IFA India Foundation for the Arts. Plz send feedback. cineqawwali.in

Would you believe me if I told you that in 1888 the American tobacco company Wm. Kimball & Co produced a set of trading cards featuring Rajas and Ranis from India? And what if I told you the title of the series was "Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers"?

The Chiriakhana Chronicles. 👓🔍🕵 A thread 🧵: While the director may have labelled it as his weakest work, fans hail it as a true cult classic. The final collab between two icons on an iconic character. A detailed sneak peak into the lesser talked world of menagerie and beyond.

THEME: ChatGPT and the Specters of Authorship Rick De Villiers (@rick_villiers) recounts using ChatGPT as a storytelling device. mediacommons.org/imr/content/ch…

We're living in the golden age of Spider Man movies! I mean, how does this film even exist?! What an absolute thing of beauty! #SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse

Go to Google Scholar and look up ‘As an AI language model” -“ChatGPT”’

Went to my local library today and asked if they had any books on “Bollywood” or Indian cinema. And they had ONE…… and of course it was about King Khan 😂

I constantly get DM’d asking for Fashion Theory recs, so I made a short thread 🫡

📚The SHARP 2024 CFP is here! 🤓The theme is Global Book Cultures: Materialities, Collaborations, Access. The conference will be held at the University of Reading July 1–5, 2024. Abstracts are due by January 5th, 2024. Check out the CFP for more info! research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-boo…

How Matthew Perry wanted to be remembered. I think we can honour his wishes today.

TIGER 3 did not work more for me than it did although an antagonist who goes to therapy is a detail i can get behind ottplay.com/news/tiger-3-y…

Sci Hub is a "pirate" website with 88M research papers freely available. Using it is not advisable. We should all try to make billion-dollar acdemic publishers richer. Here's a thread on integrating Zotero with Sci Hub to get free articles. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS 😉

Our special issue of the journal South Asian Popular Culture on 'Digital Humanities and Identities' has been published. It's been co-edited by Souraj Dutta, Avishek Ray & myself, with some timely essays. Have a look tandfonline.com/toc/rsap20/21/3

The AI Mirror Test The "mirror test" is a classic test used to gauge whether animals are self-aware. I devised a version of it to test for self-awareness in multimodal AI. 4 of 5 AI that I tested passed, exhibiting apparent self-awareness as the test unfolded. In the classic

Come and work with us at Birmingham City University on a fully funded PhD examining the Arts, Culture and Place at the Serendipity Arts Festival across Goa and Birmingham. We are open to you writing and shaping your own proposal within the parameters of our project outline.

An interview well worth watching youtu.be/lqikP9X9-ws?si…

After a fantastic first day of the symposium, we now have a full day devoted to Sholay at (nearly) 50. Looking forward to papers covering everything from the Cypriot folk song that inspired Mehbooba, through to Kanti Shah’s trash remake Duplicate Sholay! #SAPCconf24 #Sholayat50