Anustup Basu

Anustup Basu is a writer, executive producer, and professor. He is well known as the author of Hindutva as Political Monotheism (Duke University Press 2020), and Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-televisual Aesthetic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010). He completed his education at Jadavpur University (1991-1996). He has been working as a professor in English, Media and Cinema Studies, South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has many research papers published under his name. Being a skilled writer with an appreciation for film media, culture, politics, and philosophy, he has written several essays which have been published in journals like Boundary 2, Semiotic Inquiry, Journal of Human Rights, Postscript, South Asian History and Culture, Postmodern Culture, and Critical Quarterly, etc.

He is credited as the co-editor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen (Routledge, 2012) and Figurations in Indian Films (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013). He also has experience working as an executive producer in the Bengali Film industry and has the Bengali feature film, Herbert (2005), credited to his name. This film won the Indian National Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali (2005) and Best Film at the Dhaka International Film Festival (2006). He is also credited as the writer for the feature film, Nazarband (2020), which was nominated at various film festivals like the Busan Film Festival 2020, and New York Indian Film Festival 2021 and won the Award for Best Feature Film at the Florence River Indian Film Festival 2021. He was also the special consultant for films like Four Chapters (2008) and Kangal Malsat (2013). He also worked on the subtitles for Kangal Malsat, and Incomplete (2017).