Department of Cinema & Photography Faculty/Staff
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| Jyotsna Kapur |
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| Department of Cinema & Photography |
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| SIUC Faculty Since 1998 |
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| Titles: | Associate Professor
Cross-appointed with sociology |
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| Directory Profile: | Jyotsna Kapur |
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| Email: | jkapur@siu.edu |
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| Room: | 1121E Communications Bldg. |
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| Phone: | (618) 453-1470 |
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| Curriculum Vitae: |  Download Jyotsna Kapur's CV |
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| Degrees: | Ph.D (1998)
Northwestern University
M.P.S. (1992)
Cornell University
M.Phil (1988)
Delhi University
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| Job Duties: | Research and teaching interests include: History and theory of the documentary idea especially its redefinations in contemporary practices and digital culture; Third Cinema; Ethnographic film; The German and Japanese New Wave; Global children's media culture; Marxist-feminist theory and neoliberalism; Issues of labor, class, race, and sexuality; Critical-cultural theory; and contemporary Indian media culture.
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Courses:
Past or Present | | CP 360 Introduction to Film Analysis and History |
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| CP 101 Introduction to Film History and Analysis Syllabus | |
| CP 470 The Image of Childhood Syllabus | |
| CP 461 History of Documentary Film, Part 1 Syllabus | |
| MCMA 550 Media Arts Theory Grad Seminar Syllabus | |
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| Personal Bio: | Author of "Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing, and the Transformation of Childhood " (Rutgers University Press: 2005) which related the changed image of childhood in late 20th century American cinema to neo-liberalism.
Founding co-editor of "Studies in South Asian Film and Media" (www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17564921)
Essays published in Jump Cut, Visual Anthropology, Film and History, Rethinking Marxism, Democratic Communiqué, and Democracy and Socialism. Current projects include a book-length manuscript on India\'s turn to neo-liberalism and the accompanying contests over notions of childhood, sexuality, gender, and nation; and essays on the cultural politcs and political economy of cultural labor.
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