B Geetha, Author at FemAsia Magazine

B Geetha

B. Geetha is an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (DLHS), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. She is a recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Fellowship in Visual Arts. Her research interests include star bodies, genre cinemas, film history, and archival studies in relation to South Asian visual cultures. Her book chapter on the anti-caste politics of the Tamil film Pariyerum Perumal (2018) is a part of the anthology titled The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India (2023).

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Three Women in Search of Tamil Cinema: An Archive of Female Spectatorship

I recently read this evocative piece by Swarnavel Eswaran titled “Tirunelveli, touring talkies and tent cinemas: multiple stories of single-screens” (2025) in the edited journal volume of South Asian History and Culture on the historical investigation of cinema halls, exhibition cultures, and

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