Indian cinema’s rising popularity around the globe is chronicled with clarity and in great detail in this video essay by Suryansu Guha. The unsung heroes of that global expansion? The humble subtitle writers. Their specialized work is the focal point of this study of Indian media industries.

Subtitle Writing or the Thankless Work of Making Indian Films Globally Accessible by Suryansu Guha

The video essay documents the creative contributions of English language subtitle writers for Indian films, arguing how the work of subtitling films was instrumental…

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Mahler’s Second, Royal Albert Hall

Jason Mittell@jmittell.bsky.social · 2y ago

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