BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies

Aims & Scope

An early and popular form of film projector, “bioscope”, was widely used to refer to the cinema in twentieth century South Asia.

By focusing on the word’s component parts, we highlight the expanding spectrum of forms involved in thinking about the relationship of life to visual and sound technologies.

From the orbit of film, television and video, we invite research into a wide historical and contemporary canvas, from precinematic forms of assembly, through to contemporary computer practices, game cultures, multimedia telephony, ambient television, surveillance cameras, and the wide range of materials assembled on the internet.

Our interests also extend to new media arts and contemporary screen-based art installations.

BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies is a blind peer-reviewed journal published biannually, starting January 2010.

We encourage theoretical and empirical research both on located screen practices and wider networks, linkages, and patterns of circulation.

This involves research into the historical, regional, and virtual spaces of screen cultures, including globalized and multi-sited conditions of production and circulation.

There is special attention given to archival research and field work.

This includes documentation and ethnographic enquiry into media institutions and industries, and their modes of regulation, for example, the policies, debates and practices of urban administration, censorship regimes, and intellectual property regulation.

Our concern with old and new media forms invites work not only on changing technologies, but also on the spaces within which media experience is organized, including changing architecture and design and an enquiry into spatial forms and histories.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.2
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.105

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29049

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	34

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Notes on Postcolonial Visual Culture

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Arvind

• The Islamic Subject of Home Cinema of Kerala

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Mohamed Shafeeq

• Toward a New Frame for Regional Films: <i>Manbhum</i> Videos and the Other Side of (Indian) Cinema

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Madhuja

• Pirate Histories: Rethinking the Indian Film Archive

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Kuhu

• When Film Came to Madras

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Stephen Putnam

• Constituting a Diffuse Region: Cartographies of Mass-mediated Bhojpuri Belonging

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Kathryn C.

• Thiruvithamkoor, Malabar, Kerala: Speculations on the Regions in “Regional Cinema”

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Ratheesh

• Re-embodying the “Classical”

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Shikha

• Aviation, Tourism and Dreaming in 1960s Bombay Cinema

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ranjani

• Region/Regional Cinema

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Ratheesh

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