Anupama Prabhala Kapse is Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on the materiality, potency and impact of sound and image in early South Asian cinema. She is co-editor of the award- winning Silent Cinema and the Politics of Space (Indiana UP, 2014). Her work has appeared in Film, Fashion and the 1960s (Indiana UP, 2017); Figurations in Indian Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Framework; South Asian Popular Culture, Film Quarterly and Indian Film Stars (BFI Press, 2019). She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, The Melodrama Consortium, and has served as jury member for IKFF, NYC, and LAIFF, Los Angeles.