My academic interests are in the areas of Bollywood cinema, Black British representation, popular music, diasporic and transnational media, television studies, film and cultural theory, and in qualitative research methods as applied to popular culture.

I teach across the range of core undergraduate and postgraduate courses concerned with screen theory and aesthetics, screen methods, and screen texts and audiences. I particularly draw on interdisciplinary approaches from Film and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology to think about the development of screen theory and how best to analyse the relationship between screen industries, texts and audiences.

My doctorate work at the Dept.of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham, UK, was a combined extended qualitative interview and textual analysis of the popular cultural texts of British Bhangra music, Bollywood films, and the non-terrestrial Zee TV channel as they are used by British Asian audiences in processes of social identity formation.

I am also one of the founders and co-editors of the internationally peer reviewed journal South Asian Popular Culture with Routledge publishers.

Websites: www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Rajinder.Dudrah/

Director of Centre for Screen Studies:
www.centreforscreenstudies.manchester.ac.uk/