Nitin Govil

Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, New York University (2005)

Research

Film, media and cultural studies, globalization, the Indian film industry, science-fiction

Publications

"Thinking Nationally: Domicile, Distinction, and Dysfunction in Global Media Exchange." Media Industries: History, Theory and Method. Alisa Perren and Jennifer Holt, Eds. Malden. Blackwell, 2009. 132-143.

"Wind(fall) from the East." Television and New Media 10.1 (2008): 63-65.

"Where did the televisions go?" The Velvet Light Trap 62 (Fall 2008): 65-66.

"India: Domination, Extinction, and Re-animation (with thanks to Jurassic Park)." The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry. Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko, Eds. Malden: Blackwell, 2008 285-294

"Bollywood and the Frictions of Global Mobility." Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow. Ed. Daya Thussu. New York and London: Routledge, 2006. 84-98. Reprinted: The Bollywood Reader. Rajinder Dudrah and Jigna Desai, Eds. Open University Press–McGraw Hill, 2008.

Book Review of Shanti Kumar’s Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television (Southern Illinois, 2006). International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 3.3 (2007): 343-345.

Global Hollywood 2, with Toby Miller, Richard Maxwell, John McMurria and Ting Wang. British Film Institute, 2005; University of California Press, 2005. Translations: (1) “Hollywood’s Global Rights” chapter translated (Portuguese) as “Os Direitos Globais de Hollywood” in Alessandra Meliero, ed., Cinema No Mundo: Indústria, Política e Mercado. Estados Unidos, Volume 4. Trans. Alessandra Meliero. São Paulo: Escrituras Editora, 2007. 121-188; (2) Book in Chinese, Beijing: China Radio and Television Publishing House, forthcoming. Reprinted: (1) Section in Youzhong Sun, ed., Cultural Studies Reader Series: Reading Film. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, forthcoming

“Hollywood’s Effects, Bollywood FX.” Contracting Out Hollywood. Mike Gasher and Greg Elmer, Eds. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 92-114.

“Broadband Television.” Encyclopedia of Television, Second Edition. Horace Newcomb, Ed. Routledge, 2004. 339-342.

“War in the Age of Pirate Reproduction.” Sarai Reader 04: Crisis/Media. Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram, Jeebesh Bagchi, , Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Geert Lovink, Eds. Sarai/Center for the Study of Developing Societies/Society for New and Old Media, 2004. 378-383.

“Something Spatial in the Air: In-Flight Entertainment and the Topographies of Modern Air Travel.” Media/Space: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age. Anna McCarthy and Nick Couldry, Eds. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2004. 233-252.

“A Tale of Two Walters.” Review of Esther Leslie’s Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde (Verso, 2002). Radical Philosophy 118 (February/March 2003). 46-48.

“Race and US Television.” Television Studies. Toby Miller, Ed. British Film Institute, 2002. 120-123.

“The Metropolis and Mental Strife: The City in Science Fiction Cinema.” Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life. Ravi Sundaram, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Vasudevan, Monica Narula, Geert Lovink, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Eds. Sarai/Center for the Study of Developing Societies/Society for New and Old Media, 2002. 78-84.

Global Hollywood, with Toby Miller, Richard Maxwell and John McMurria. British Film Institute, 2001. Reprinted: University of California Press, 2002; British Film Institute, 2003. Conclusion reprinted in John Hartley, ed., Creative Industries. New York: Blackwell, 2004. Translations: (1) in Chinese, Trans. Fun Cheng-Sun. Taipei: Chu Liu Book Company, Taiwan, 2003; (2) in Spanish as El Nuevo Hollywood: Del Imperialismo Cultural a las Leyes del Marketing, Trans. Núria Pujol i Vals. Buenos Aires, Barcelona, and Mexico City: Ediciones Paidós Ibéricas, 2005; (3) in Simplified Chinese, Beijung: Hua Xia, in press