Sureshkumar P. Sekar
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Sureshkumar P. Sekar
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PhD - Royal College of Music, London; MA - Univ. of East Anglia; B. Tech - NIT, Trichy. Researching audience experience, audiovisual culture, video essays.

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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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November 17, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉

We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc
November 16, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Watching the John Williams documentary and it's using literally him playing The Fabelmans score under footage of his own childhood. Shouldn't be allowed, too emotionally effective.
November 14, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Timeline of the academic video essay I'm working on right now

#Oppenheimer #MyFirstBskyPost
November 11, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Mahler’s Second, Royal Albert Hall
November 11, 2024 at 3:06 AM