Anustup Basu

Anustup Basu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His essays on film, media, globalisation and political sovereignty have appeared, or are forthcoming, in boundary 2, Critical Quartely, Postmodern Culture, Postscript, Mute and the anthology Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Basu is currently completing a manuscript entitled The Geotelevisual Aesthetic: Information, Capital, and Religiosity in Popular Hindi Cinema (1991-2004) and guest editing a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture on new media ecologies. He was also the executive producer of Herbert (director: Suman Mukhopadhyay, 2005), which won the Indian National Award for Best Bengali Feature Film in 2005-6.