Dr Jenson Joseph

Communication

My research work probes the links between media practices and the political-cultural forms they engender under historical conditions. For my PhD project, I studied a range of commercial-aesthetic practices of cinema in Kerala between the late 1940s and the mid 1960s, by examining their relationship to the political imaginaries that they gave expressions to. My current research attempts to make contributions to the studies on contemporary transformations in media cultures across the globe, especi