Shekhar Deshpande, “The Ontology of Windows and Cinema in the Pandemic: e-flux and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’s Film Series 2020,” Senses of Cinema, Issue 98, May 2021.
Meta Mazaj, Shekhar Deshpande, “The Political Imperative of World Cinema,” Studies in World Cinema, V. 1. No. 1, 2020, 39-46.
Shekhar Deshpande, Meta Mazaj, “Centers, Forms, and Perspectives in World Cinema,” in Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, Vol. 2, no. 1, Winter 2014.
Meta Mazaj and Shekhar Deshpande “Cinema Beyond Borders: Slovene Films in a World Context,” in A Companion to Eastern European Cinema, Ed. Aniko Imre, Blackwell, 2012, 148-166.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Anthology Film: The Future is NOW: Film Producer as Creative Director,” Widescreen, v. 2, no. 2, 2010.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Anthology Films in European Cinema: New Frontiers of Collective Identities,” Studies in European Cinema, v 7, no. 1, 2010, 77-88.
Shekhar Deshpande, “The Afterlife of War: The 15th Sarajevo Film Festival,” Senses of Cinema, Issue 53, Dec. 2010.
Media Editor and Contributing Writer, Little India, 1991- 2015.
Shekhar Deshpande, “Whose Identity is it Anyway?” Seminar, 538 (2004).
“Miss Lovely,” Dear Cinema, July 1, 2014.
“Nisha Pahuja’s The World Before Her,” Dear Cinema, June 6, 2014.
“Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi,” Dear Cinema, May 17, 2014.
“Liar’s Dice,” Dear Cinema, May 14, 2014.
“Midnight’s Children: Two Authors in Search of a Film,” Dear Cinema, April 30, 2013.
“’Celluloid Man’, Saving History for Our Rich Past, Dear Cinema, April 14, 2013.
Road, Movie (2009): A Reappraisal, Dear Cinema, January 16, 2011
Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, April 2010.
Book Review, “Keila Diehl’s Echoes from Dharmasala: Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community, University of California Press, 2002),”South Asian Review, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (2002), pp. 249-252.
Traveling Cinemas, Projectionist’s Narratives, Dear Cinema, February 3, 2011
Indian Film Festival, Los Angeles, April 2011
- I am Kalam, Dear Cinema, April 12, 2011
- Short Films I, Dear Cinema, April 13, 2011
- Peepli Live, Dear Cinema, April 14, 2011
- The Bengali Detective, Dear Cinema, April 16, 2011
- That Girl in Yellow Boots, Dear Cinema, April 17, 2011
- Iti Mrinalini, Dear Cinema, April 17, 2011
- Ganesh Boy Wonder, Dear Cinema, April 17, 2011
- Onir’s I AM, Dear Cinema, April 17, 2011
- Laadli Laila (Virgin Goat), Dear Cinema, April 17, 2011
- Pink Saris, Dear Cinema, April 18, 2011
- Pink Chaddis, Dear Cinema, April 18, 2011
Shades of Grey: IFFLA, Little India, May 2011.
International Film Festival, Rotterdam, February 2010
- In Conversation with Umesh and Girish Kulkarni, Dear Cinema, Feb. 7, 2010
- Kutty Srank, Dear Cinema, February 4, 2010
- Tigar Awards and Long Takes! Dear Cinema, Feb. 7, 2010
- Indian Shorts, Dear Cinema, Feb. 6, 2010
- The Competition, Dear cinema, Feb. 4, 2010
- “Vihir at Rotterdam Fest: A Bright Future for Marathi-Indian cinema,” Dear Cinema, Feb. 3, 2010
“K. M. Madhusudhanan’s Bioscope,” Dear Cinema, 8 May 2009.
“Trade Tales: The Body Shop,” with Andy Kurtz, Mediations, 18, Fall 1994.
“Semiotics and Realism: Toward a Theory of Documentary Film,” Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America, John N. Deely and Margot D. Lenhart (Eds.), New York Plenum Press, 1985.
Little India Articles
Conference Papers- Talks-Workshops
“Strategic Transnationalism in Women’s Anthology Films,” Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, March 8, 2013.
Chair, Engaging Media: Media, Spectators, Politics, Society for Cinema Studies, March 13, 2011.
Chair and Convener, Panel on Sound and Image: The Spaces in Between? NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011 Conference on Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Languages of Screen Media, London, June 24-26, 2011.
“Sound and Image in musical documentaries: Marina Andree’s Sevdah 2009);” NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011 Conference on Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Languages of Screen Media, London, June 24-26, 2011.
“Nation in the wake of its demise: Anthology films as a response to the New Europe,” The Europeanness of European Cinema, Kings College, London, June 2010.
Respondent to the Third Biennial Cinema Conference on Cinema South Asia: Focus on Documentary, University of Pennsylvania, April 2010.
“East European Omnibus as a Pedagogical and Methodological Strategy,”Society of Cinema Studies Conference, Los Angeles, March 2009.
“Anthology of Identity: Emerging Imaginary in European Cinema,”European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF), SUNY Binghamton, NY, June 2009.
“SoundShaping!” Radio without Boundaries Conference, Toronto, May 2007.
“Arcadianism: A Challenge to the Humanities General Education,” International Symposium on New Directions in the Humanities, New York, February 2007.
“Listening to Modernity: Walter Benjamin and Sound,” Walter Benjamin And the Architecture of Modernity, Sydney, Australia, August 2006.
“Immigrants in a Bi-Polar World: Film and Newspapers in Trinidad,” International Association of Mass Communication Research, Barcelona, Spain, 2002.
“Phenomenology, Tarkovsky and Spirituality,” Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, March 2000.
Chair, A panel on Cyborgs and Cinematic Imaginary, Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, March 2000.
Conducted a Workshop for the Faculty on Indian Cinema, Community College of Philadelphia, May 1999.
“Finding a Voice: Intellectual as a Minority Journalist,” talk given at the SAJA Division, Unity Conference, Seattle, July, 1999.
Coordinator, National Indian American Conference, Rutgers University, October, 1997.
“History, Angels and the Image of the ‘Other,’ ” International Walter Benjamin Conference, Amsterdam, July 1997.
Coordinator, Chair, Presenter, Balancing Two worlds: Forging an Indian American Identity: a National Conference, Montclair State University. Sept. 1995.
“Notions of Justice in Hinduism,” History and Politics, Drexel University, April 18, 1994.
“Talk Radio and the Public Sphere,” Institute on Culture and Society, June 1992.
“Culture and Development A Cross-Disciplinary Exchange,” International Association for Mass Communication Research, Bled, Yugoslavia, August, 1990.
Chair and Commentator, a panel on “Discourses of Crisis Representation, Hegemony, and Mass Media,” International Communication Association (Philosophy and Mass Communication Division), San Francisco, May 1989.
“Are We Closer to Emancipation Yet? The Critical Import of Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action,” International Communication Association (Philosophy Division), San Francisco, May 1989.
“Textuality, Narratives and Contestation of Power in the Media Apparatus,” International Communication Association (Philosophy Division), New Orleans, May-June, 1988.
“The Body Count of Power and the Pleasure Count of the Body,” International Communication Association (Philosophy Division), New Orleans, May-June, 1988.
“Watching Media Popular Culture as Everyday Resistance,” Popular Culture Association, New Orleans, March 1988.
“Historicity of Traditions Heterogeneity of Desire in Contemporary Indian Cinema,” Society for Cinema Studies, New Orleans, April, 1986.
“History on Film or, Embrace of the Signifier: An Exploration in Textuality,” Society for Cinema Studies, New York, June 1985.
“That Part of Cinema Called Television The Apparatus as a History Machine,” Iowa TV Conference, Iowa City, April 1985.
“Frontiers of Feminism and the Limits of Representation,” Central States Speech Communication Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, April, 1985.
