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Book Chapters

Hughes, Stephen (2019) 'Social Sense and Embodied Sensibility: Towards a historical phenomenology of film going.' In: Biltereyst, Daniel, Maltby, Richard and Meers, Philippe, (eds.), The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 355-364.

Hughes, Stephen (2013) 'Play it Again Saraswathi: Gramophone, Religion and Devotional Music in Colonial South India.' In: Booth, Gregory D. and Shope, Bradley, (eds.), More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 114-141.

Hughes, Stephen (2011) 'What is Tamil About Tamil Cinema?' In: Dickey, Sara and Dudrah, Rajinder, (eds.), South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens. Abingdon: Routledge.

Hughes, Stephen (2011) 'Media anthropology and the problem of audience reception.' In: Ruby, Jay and Banks, Marcus, (eds.), Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hughes, Stephen (2011) 'Film genre, exhibition and audiences in colonial south India.' In: Maltby, Richard, Biltereyst, Daniel and Meers, Philippe, (eds.), Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies. London: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 295-309.

Hughes, Stephen (2009) 'Tamil mythological cinema and the politics of secular modernism.' In: Meyer, Birgit, (ed.), Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 93-116. (Religion/culture/critique)

Hughes, Stephen (2006) 'Urban mobility and early cinema in Chennai.' In: Venkatachalapathy, A. R., (ed.), Chennai Not Madras: Perspectives on the City. Mumbai: Marg Publications, pp. 39-48.

Hughes, Stephen (2000) 'Policing silent film exhibition in colonial south India.' In: Vasudevan, Ravi, (ed.), Making Meaning in Indian Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 33-64.

Journal Article

Hughes, Stephen and Stevenson, Emily (2019) 'South India Addresses the World: Postcard Circulation and Empire.' Trans-Asia Photography Review, 9 (2). p. 8.

Hughes, Stephen and Stevenson, Emily (2018) 'From Madras to Bangalore.' Frontline, 36 (18). pp. 99-116.

Hughes, Stephen (2013) 'Show Time: 1913 Reconsidered: Exhibition and the making of Indian cinema.' Frontline.

Hughes, Stephen (2013) 'The production of the past: Tamil film history as a living archive.' BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 4 (1). pp. 71-80.

Hughes, Stephen (2011) 'Five Short of Centenary.' The Hindu. p. 1.

Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'What is Tamil about Tamil Cinema?' South Asia Popular Culture, 8 (3). pp. 213-229.

Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'Our tryst with celluloid magic.' The Hindu - Sunday Magazine. p. 1.

Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'When Film Came to Madras.' BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, 1 (2). pp. 147-168.

Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'The Sound of RMRL.' Maatruveli Aayvitazh, 4. pp. 76-81.

Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'In search of beginnings...' The Hindu - Sunday Magazine. p. 5.

Hughes, Stephen (2010) 'The Lost Decade of Indian Film History.' Journal of the Moving Image, 9. pp. 72-93.

Hughes, Stephen (2007) 'Music in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Drama, Gramophone and the Beginnings of Tamil Cinema.' The Journal of Asian Studies, 66 (1). pp. 3-34.

Hughes, Stephen (2006) 'House Full: Silent Film Genre, Exhibition and Audiences in South India.' Indian Economic and Social History Review, 43 (1). pp. 31-62.

Hughes, Stephen (2005) 'Mythologicals and Modernity: Contesting Silent Cinema in South India.' Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 1 (2-3). pp. 207-35.

Hughes, Stephen and Meyer, Birgit (2005) 'Introduction: Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-secular World.' Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 1 (2/3). pp. 149-153.

Hughes, Stephen (2003) 'Pride of Place: rethinking exhibition for the study of cinema in India.' Seminar: The Monthly Symposium, 525. pp. 28-32.

Hughes, Stephen (2002) 'The 'Music Boom' in Tamil South India: Gramophone, Radio and the Making of Mass Culture.' Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 22 (4). pp. 445-73.

Hughes, Stephen (1996) 'Madras Cinema Audiences in the 1920s: a sociological approach.' Kalaccuvatu, 16. pp. 19-25.

Hughes, Stephen (1996) 'The Pre-Phalke era in South India: Reflections on the formation of film audiences in Madras.' South Indian Studies, 2. pp. 161-204.