July 19, 2026 11:55 pm

NBA Accreditation:UG-CSE,ETCE (6yrs) & UG-IT,IEE,PE (3yrs)

Dr.

Subhajit Chatterjee

Department : Department of Film Studies

Designation : Assistant Professor

Additional Roles and Responsibilities :

Address : 60 Motilal Nehru Road, Kolkata 700029

E-Mail: subhajit.chatterjee@jadavpuruniversity.in

Mobile Number: 919831046712

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About

More than 17 years of Postgraduate and Undergraduate teaching in Film Studies.

Subjects Taught

    Early Film Forms, American Cinema, New Waves Across the World, Film Language & Post Classical Film Theory, Melodrama and Popular Entertainment, Research Methodologies in Film Studies

Research Interests

    Film History, Bengali Popular Cinema, Cult and Exploitation Cinemas, Post-War Modernisms, Japanese Cinema

Notable Achievements

    Jadavpur University Gold Medal for Masters Examination in Film Studies, 2000

Journal Papers Published

  Bengali Popular Melodrama in the 50s, Subhajit Chatterjee, South Asian Journal, 2010, -15-25   Remapping Transitions of Bengali Cinema into the 50s, Subhajit Chatterjee, Journal of the Moving Image 2010 -117-146   Inhabiting Passionate Spaces: Reframing of Intimacy in 50s Bengali Romantic Films, Subhajit Chatterjee, Silhouette, 2008,-37-49   On Disreputable Genres: B Movies and Revisionary Histories of Bombay Cinema, Subhajit Chatterjee, Marg, 2013, Vol 64, No.4-32-41   “The Brothers Ghosh: Bengal, Its Art Cinema and Its Homegrown Exploitation Genres” in Rashmi Devi Sawhney (ed.) The Vanishing Point: Moving Images After Video, New Delhi: Tulika Books 2022- 49-67   'A Rendezvous with the Ghosh Brothers: A Sneak Peek into Bengal's Homegrown Exploitation Cinema', Subhajit Chatterjee, South Asian History and Culture, Volume 10, No. 4, 2019,- 397-421

Publication in Conference Proceedings

    Teaching Indian Cinema, Subhajit Chatterjee, presented at the International Colloquium on Teaching Film Studies in India organized by the Department of Film Studies and the Media Lab, Jadavpur University, October 24-25, 2011. published in Journal of the Moving Image 2012, -69-77    ‘Towards a New Junk Aesthetics? : Narratorial Predicaments in Contemporary Alternatives in/to Bollywood’, Subhajit Chatterjee, at the International Conference on Cinema Space: Indian Cinema and the City held at Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, U.S.A. November 3- 4, 2011 and published in Positions: Asia Critique (Special Issue on Aesthetics of Space in Indian Cinema), volume 25 number 1, February 2017, - 195-222

NBA Accreditation:UG-CSE,ETCE (6yrs) & UG-IT,IEE,PE (3yrs)