Audiovisual Resources

These links to audiovisual material are there to help you expand your background knowledge.

There are full university lectures (from universities such as Yale and Berkeley) on literature, theory and history, guest lectures by key literary critics talking about their key concepts as well as interviews and discussions.

Most of the material is taken from the websites collected under "Links." On these sites, you can find a wealth of further material!

Key Critics

Kwame Anthony Appiah

• "Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in A World of Strangers"  (Oct. 29 2008)

Homi K Bhabha

• "On Global Memory" (Apr. 14, 2008)

• "Writing Rights and Responsibilities" (Jan. 31, 2008)

Pierre Bourdieu

• Pierre Carles. Sociology is a Martial Art. C-P Productions, 2001

Dipesh Chakrabarty

• "Indian Modernity: Once Colonial, Now Global" (Sept. 30, 2009)

• "Breaking the Walls of Two Cultures" (2009)

Jacques Derrida

• Kirby Dick, Amy Kofman. Derrida. Jane Doe Movies, 2002.

Franz Fanon

• Isaac Julien, Marc Nash. Frantz Fanon: Black Skin/White Masks. Normal Films, 1996. 

Sigmund Freud

• Elisabeth Kapnist dir. "Sigmund Freud. Die Erfindung der Psychoanalyse." Part 1. Die Anfänge Part 2. Der Durchbruch. France 3/ BFC Productions, 1997.

Eric Hobsbawm

• "Eric Hobsbawm and Marxist History" (Sep. 29, 2016)

Antonio Gramsci

• International Gramsci Society: Audio and Video Resources

Stephen Greenblatt

• Podcast: Stephen Greenblatt (Oct. 15, 2008)

Stuart Hall

• Race, the Floating Signifier

Karl Marx

• "Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey": This open course consists of 13 video lectures of Professor Harvey’s close chapter by chapter reading of Capital, Volume I.

Trinh Thi Minh-Ha

• Reassemblage. From the Firelight to the Screen (1983) on youtube: 1/42/43/44/4

Ashis Nandy/Arjun Appadurai

• "The Romance of the Nation State" Lecture by Nandy followed by a discussion  with Arjun Appadurai. FORA TV (Mar. 2007)

Gananath Obeyesekere

• Conversation with History (2003)

Mary Louise Pratt

• "Modernity and Globality or What brought the Virgin of Zapopan to Los Angeles." Ian Fletcher Lecture, University of Arizona  (Feb 2001)

Edward Said

• On Orientalism Edward Said explaining his concept of Orientalism

• "The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations"   2/6  3/6  4/6   5/6  6/6(1996)

Gayatri C Spivak

• "The Trajectory of the Subaltern in My Work" (Sept 13, 2004)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• "Moving the Center:Language, Culture and Globalization." Lecture, University of California, 2004

Slavoj Zizek

• "First Tragedy, then Farce" The RSA  (Amimated)

• "We're Only Human: Ideology in Hollywood Today" (Jan 2009)
  • (Part 1)(Part 2), Guest Lecture, University of Vermont

Links

BBC Podcast: My Indian Life

• My Indian Life is a podcast on "what it means to be young and Indian in the 21st century." Host Kalki Koechlin and a BBC team travel across India, meeting uniquely talented individuals with troubled lives.

Internet Archive: Cultural and Academic Films Collection

• This library of academic and cultural films features several sub-collections of documentaries, educational movies, anthropological and artistic films.

Nobel Prize Lectures 

• Nobel  Laureates have "to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded." 

iTunes University

• Educational content on iTunes. Audiovisual material from more than 600 museums and unversities.

Academicearth.Org

• Complete lecture series from leading American universities such as Yale, Stanford, Berkeley etc.

Open Yale Courses

• Introductory courses from all fields, often with additional course material and lecture transcripts.

University of California Television(UCTV)

• Mostly guest lectures by distinguished scholars (e.g. Bhabha, Spivak) and writers (e.g. Soyinka, Fugard).

Webcast: University of Berkeley 

• Course lectures, poetry readings and special events
• Conversations with History (highly recommended)

ForaTV

• Lectures and discussions on economy, politics, culture, science and the environment. 

Library of Congress Webcasts

• Collection of webcasts of events organized by the Library of Congress: many readings by authors and lectures on literature, history, biography etc.

Web Media from Princeton University

• Lectures held at Princeton University, some from distinguished lecture series.

The British Academy

• Podcasts available on the website (with short abstracts).

MIT Comparative Media Studies: CMS News (Podcasts)

• Subjects relate to the various media we create and consume each day: film, TV, comics, videogames, the internet, and the vast body of emerging media that's being created as you read this. (website)