Sureshkumar P. Sekar
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Author, Reviewer
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Biography
Sureshkumar P. Sekar holds a PhD from Royal College of Music, London, an MA in creative writing (biography and creative non-fiction) from University of East Anglia, Norwich, and a B. Tech in mechanical engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy. His research interests are audiovisual culture, audience experience, video essay, fandom, and film music. His video essays have been screened at over 30 academic conferences and some of his peer-reviewed academic video essays – published in journals such as [in]Transition, Tecmerin, Alphaville, and Music, Sound and the Moving Image – have been included in the best video essays of the year poll in Sight and Sound magazine. His work has been nominated for the Learning on Screen Award, the Adelio Ferrero Award, and was runner-up in the Andrew Goodwin Memorial Prize 2022. His paper ‘Intense Affect, Feeling, and Emotions: Audience Experience in Film-with-Live-Orchestra Concerts’ was announced the runner-up for the Claudia Gorbman Graduate Student Writing Award 2023.