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Televisual Drag: Reimagining South Asian Film and Media Studies

“…Televisual drag is also, therefore, a contribution to a broader and ongoing conversation about media identity, definition, and disciplinary boundaries. At a moment when the academic study of media in South Asia and other non-Western contexts is moving beyond a film-centric focus to grapple with the proliferation of screens and sonic forms (Vasudevan et al 2020), we wish to pause and explore what television's many avatars might reveal about global media histories and their emergence into the digital present.…”