Who wrote this?

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Hamish Mèk Chohan enjoys watching films. He enjoys it so much he studied BA (Hons) Film and Video and MA Documentary film.

 

In 2020 he earned a PgCert in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication and became an Advanced HE Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. His PgCert projects and interventions focused on championing British South Asian films to address the underrepresentation of South Asian visibility in UK based art and media higher education institutions.

 

British South Asians in Film came into being after reading the following Bell Hooks’s observation within Reel To Reel. “Whether we like it or not, cinema assumes a pedagogical role in the lives of many people ... I began to realize that my students learned more about race, sex, and class from movies than from all the theoretical literature I was urging them to read. Movies not only provide a narrative for specific discourses of race, sex, and class, they provide a shared experience, a common starting point from which diverse audiences can dialogue about these charged issues.” (Hooks, 1996, p. 2).

 

Hamish is a third-generation British South Asian of Indian heritage and an academic.

 

References:

 

• Hooks, B. (1996), Reel To Reel, Oxon: Routledge 2009