Section: Staff Profiles
Lotte Hoek
- Name
- Dr Lotte Hoek
- Title
- Lecturer, Social Anthropology
- Organisation
- Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 5.26 Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- +44 (0)131 650 6970
- lotte.hoek@ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Media anthropology,Sexuality,Visual Culture,Cinema,Urban Ethnography,South Asia,Bangladesh
- URL
- http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/lotte_hoek
Office Hours
My office hours during semester 1 are Fridays 13:30-14:30.
Research Interests
- Bangladesh, South Asia
- Anthropology of Media
- Sex & Gender
- Visual Culture and Cinema
- Popular Culture
- Urban Ethnography
Biographical statement
I studied Cultural Anthropology, International Relations and South Asian Studies at the University of Amsterdam and at SOAS. My key research interest is the visual culture of Bangladesh and I have done research concerning photography, cinema and television in Dhaka. I completed my PhD from the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research and taught at the University of Amsterdam. My PhD dissertation “Cut-Pieces: Obscenity and the Cinema in Bangladesh” is an ethnography of the Bangladesh film industry and focuses on the common practice of inserting sexually explicit imagery into B-quality action movies.
Selected Publications
2012. Mofussil Metropolis: Civil sites, uncivil cinema and provinciality in Dhaka City. Ethnography 13(1): 28-42. Special Issue: Crowds and Conviviality: Ethnographies of the South Asian City, edited by Ajay Gandhi & Lotte Hoek
2010. Urdu for Image: Understanding Bangladeshi Cinema through its Theatres. In Shakuntala Banaji (ed.). South Asian Media Cultures: Representations, Audiences and Contexts. London & New York: Anthem Press.
2010. Cut-Pieces as Stag Film: Bangladeshi Pornography in Action Cinema. Third Text 24(1): 133-146.
2010. Unstable Celluloid: Film Projection and the Cinema Audience in Bangladesh. BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 1:1.
2009. ‘More Sexpression Please!’ Screening the Female Voice and Body in the Bangladesh Film Industry. In Birgit Meyer (ed.). Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2006. The mysterious whereabouts of the cut-pieces: Dodging the film censors in Bangladesh. IIAS Newsletter 42: 18-19.
2005. The Drik Picture Library: Images for Change. Visual Communication 3 (4,): 333-336.
Topics interested in supervising
I am interested in supervising PhD applicants with research projects relating to any of my research interests.
If you are interested in being supervised by Lotte Hoek , please see the links below for more information:
This page was published on 13 April 2012