UC SANTA BARBARA
Trinankur Banerjee

Film & Media Studies Graduate Student

Trinankur Banerjee

Biography

Trinankur Banerjee is a M.A./Ph.D. student at the department of Film and Media Studies. He did his bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University in India and obtained a masters in Film Studies from the same institution later on. His research interests involve vernacular forms of comedy in cinema, its relation to cultural, political or social divides and its transnational variations, as well as history and impact of avant-garde in cinema in various forms.