Communication and Culture in Bangladesh

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Saturday, May 2, 2020

Extraction: A White Man’s Rescue Mission in a Filthy South Asian City

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At last Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh became the subject matter of a Hollywood action movie. After visiting a lot of African count...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Bangladeshi Films: Through the Lens of Professor Fahmidul Haq

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[ Raihana Sayeeda Kamal talks to Dr Fahmidul Haq to know the ins and outs of Bangladeshi films. Dr Fahmidul Haq is a professor of Mass...
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Saturday, January 28, 2017

The Ant Story: Modern Man’s Descent into Madness

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Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s The Ant Story explores the issue of contemporary Bangladeshi sexuality from a psychoanalytical perspec...

Under Construction: A Document of Time and Space Under Construction

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Under Construction is a film about women made by women. It is also a critique of contemporary Bangladeshi society in two ways. First,...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Policy Supports, Doesn't Control

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THE government published a gazette recently on the National Broadcast Policy-2014 despite widespread criticism. The criticism started afte...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

First Comprehensive Book on Bangladesh's Media

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Eds: Shoesmith  & Gelino A new book on Bangladeshi media has been published recently. The book is first of its kind that is an anth...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Common Gender: The First Queer Feature in Bangladesh

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Making film on sexually marginalized people is almost a revolutionary attempt by a filmmaker in Bangladesh . Noman Robin’s debut featu...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Nagpoornima: Just Another Snake Cinema

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Nagpoornima Bangladesh , 1983 Dir: Masud Parvez Main Actors: Sohel Rana, Babita, Rozina, Adil. Format: 35 mm Duration: 135 mins...
Friday, September 21, 2012

‘I am assertively hearing footsteps of a change’

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Fahmidul Haq , associate professor of mass communication and journalism at the University of Dhaka who has authored several books on the co...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Social Media: The Debate on Freedom and Responsibility

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Defining social media Social media is a web-based platform where people share information, thoughts and activities. Social media has ov...
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Fahmidul Haq
Currently, I am a visiting professor at Bard College, New York where I teach Film and Media. I also served at Notre Dame University, USA for two years. I taught Mass Communication and Journalism at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh for nearly two decades. Cinema Studies, New Media and Political Economy of Media are my academic area of interests. I have written and edited several books both in English and Bengali. I did my PhD research in Cinema Studies. E-mail: fahmidul.haq@gmail.com.
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