BOOKS

• Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban, co-edited with Amy Phua and Nisha Mathew from Lexington Books, Oct 2023.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Krishna, C.Y. (2023). Film and Caste Anxieties in Early Twentieth-Century India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2023.2176064


• Krishna, C.Y. (2021). Language and Cinema: Schisms in the representation of Hyderabad, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1027-1040. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2021.1975209


• Krishna, C.Y. (2020). Princely Films: The Silver Jubilee Film of 1937 and the Princely State of Hyderabad. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 41, Issue 2, 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2020.1857926


• Krishna, C.Y. (2019). Film in the Princely State: The Lotus Film Company of Hyderabad. Wide Screen, 8(1). ISSN: 1757-3920


• Krishna, C.Y. (2019). The neo-liberal city and cinema: Deccani films. South Asian Popular Culture, 17(2), 185-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2018.1510634


• Krishna, C.Y., Ashok, R. & Vijaykumar, V. (2016). Adaptation, the film, the process and the dialogue, CAESURAE: POETICS OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION. Online.


• Krishna, C.Y.., & Teles Da Silva, E. (2015). Construction of Indian femininity and masculinity in Filmindia magazine 1946–1948. South Asian Popular Culture, 13(3), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2015.1126912


• Krishna, C.Y. & Nori, G. (2015). Examining the Virtual Publics: The Case of Unofficial Subramaniam Swamy, Subversions. A journal of Emerging Research in Media and Culture Studies. Vol 3. Issue 2. Online. ISSN 2347-9426


• Krishna, C.Y., Gadekar, R., Shrivastava, S., Krishnatray, P. (2014). Framing of Temple-Mosque Judicial Verdict on Indian T.V, The journal of Mgt., Comp. Science and Journalism; Vol 8, Issue 2.


• Vasavada-Oza, F., Nagraj, A., & Krishna, Y. (2012). Marketing to Rural Women: How Various Leading Brands Are Doing It?. IUP Journal of Brand Management, 9(2), 7-17.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Shivanand, S., Krishna, C. Y., & Soumya, C. P. (2025). Khidki Collective 1: Reflections on Academic Method Beyond the University. In Practices of Digital Humanities in India (pp. 177-193). Routledge India.


• Krishna, C.Y. (2024). Claiming history, claiming present: Muslim Diaspora and Hyderabad City. In C.Y. Krishna, A. Phua, & N. Mathew (Eds.) Claims on the city: Situated narratives of the urban (pp. 109-125). Rowman and Littlefield.


• Krishna, C. Y. (2024). Postcards from Russia: Left Discourse and Telugu Cinema. In The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas (pp. 176-185). Routledge.


• Krishna, C. Y. (2020). Film exhibition in Hyderabad in the 1930s: The case of Moti Mahal cinema and film circulation. In M. Mehta & M. Mukherjee (Eds.), Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India. Shooting Stars, Shifting Geographies and Multiplying Media (pp. 95-107). Routledge India. ISBN 9780367344719


• Krishna, C. Y. (2018). Singing about the City: Imaginations of the City in Telugu Film Songs. In S. Allen and K. Mollegaard (Eds.), Narratives of Place in Literature and Film (pp. 114-126). Routledge. ISBN 9780367663377      

FILMS

Ilm ka shehar, 2024 | 
Screenings

• Hong Kong University, February 2024


• FLAME University, March 2024


• Talking Films Online Forum, April 2024


• Kazi Nazrul University, as a part of the 6 Day short term course on Digital Archiving in Practice, Endangered Archives Program, September 2024


• Lamakaan, Hyderabad, September 2024

CURATORIAL WORK

• Chitramahal- Princely encounters with photography and film. It is an intermedial exhibition exploring the visual culture of the princely states focusing on photography and film, from Indore, Jaipur, Kolhapur, and Hyderabad

Exhibited in

• Harkat Studios, August 9-17, 2024


• Ark Foundation for the Arts 30 September to 25 October 2024


• The Zor Project - zor.untold.town


• It is a digital archive of the work of the Deccani literatteur and intellectual Dr. Syed Mohiuddin Qadri Zore.

INVITED TALKS

• Film City Urbanism in India, Hyderabad 1890 to 2000, at Birla Institute of Technological Sciences (BITS), Hyderabad, Feb 2024.


• Discussion on Claims on the city held at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Feb, 2024


• Streaming Wars, Platform Capitalism, and the Telugu Film Industry, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.


• Talk on “Going to cinema: Studying the urban in princely city of Hyderabad and cantonment of Secunderabad” at Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies.


• Presentation on “Searching for cinema in the state archives” in sandpit on Film Heritage and Archives: Questions of inclusion, preservation, and scoping opportunities as a part of UKRI funded project.


• Guest lecture on Indian cinema(s) at Bangkok University, May 2021.

 RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• C. Yamini Krishna, Panel on Asian Cinemas in AAS in Asia, July 2024.


• C. Yamini Krishna, Panel on Claims on the city in AAS in Asia, July 2024.


• C. Yamini Krishna. "Princely cinema and the world," Domitor Early Cinema Conference, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, June 2024.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “"Imagining the region," Comparative Literature Association of India Conference, Sikkim University,  Nov 2023.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Thinking location and public history through archives,” Contesting archive. JNU, Nov 2023.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Imagining the region: Dakhaniyat in Sabras, 20th century Hyderabad,” Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI) biannual conference, Sikkim University, Nov 2023.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Film City Urbanism,” Locating Media Industries. Cities. Spaces. Places. King’s College London, June 2023.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Princely states and patronage: Cinema in South Asia, 1930-40,” Screen Conference, University of Glasgow, June 2023.


• C. Yamini Krishna. The City of Knowledge. Film. Exhibited in Oral History Association of India conference.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Telugu public and the devotional capital city,” Telugu Studies Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Dec 2022.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Towards a networked film history,” Archives of Indian Cinema: Methodologies, Creativities and Urgencies, UKRI funded conference, Pune University, Oct 2022.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “The making of a devotional capital city” in Cultural Studies Association, Chicago (presented online), June 2022.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “Changing business models: The war between the distributors, exhibitors and OTT platforms” in AFSSA conference on From Screening to Streaming: Ideology, Aesthetics and Historiography of New Cinema, Dec 2021.


• C. Yamini Krishna. “City and Film City-The Nexus of Film and Tourism” in Worlds of Imagination: Media, Place and Tourism in Today’s Global World, April 2021.

 OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Krishna, C.Y. (2023). Media and the constitution of the political: South Asia and beyond. Ravi Vasudevan (ed), New Delhi, Sage, Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television (Book Review)


• Krishna, C.Y. (2021). Where histories reside: India as filmed space: PRIYA JAIKUMAR, 2019, durham and london, duke university press, pp. xv+ 397, illus., bibliography, index, and appendix, 109.95(cloth), 29.95. (Book Review)


• Krishna, C.Y & Sasi Kiran M.  (2019). The Ageing Diva in Bollywood: The Construction of Rekha, Phalanx. Online


• Krishna, C.Y.  (2019). Social Justice Through the Lens of Film. Conference booklet, The Rise of New Left and the Return of the Universal Welfare State, The Welfare State is Possible.


• Krishna, C.Y. (2018). A Report on Samaanthara-A Festival of Parallel Cinema and Retrospective of Girish Kasaaravalli and a workshop on Re-viewing Parallel Cinema: Continuities, Discontinuities, Influences, CAESURAE: POETICS OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION VOL3: 1. Online


• Krishna, C.Y. (2014). Review of Courting Blakness: Recalibrating knowledge in the Sandstone University, Australian Women’s Book Review, 32-36

PUBLIC WRITING

• Krishna, C. Y (2024, 7 Sept). Who Is Allowed to Remember? A Film Attempts to Answer. The Wire.


• Krishna, C. Y (2024, 27 July). Beyond Raja Deen Dayal: The Pioneering Photography of Ramchandra Rao and Pratap Rao of Indore. The Wire.


• Krishna, C. Y (2024, 16 Mar). What It Takes To Be The Keeper of A City’s Lore. The Wire.


• Krishna, C.Y (2023, 15 Sept) How Telugu cinema has been distorting the history of Telangana rebellion. The News Minute


• Krishna, C. Y (2022, 7 Aug) The After Lives of Historical Figures in the ‘Pan-Indian’ Telugu film. The Wire. Online


• Waheed, S & Krishna, C. Y. (2022, 19 July) India’s Vanishing Pasts. Himalmag. Online


• Krishna, C.Y. (2022, 09 July). Scenes from Hyderabad: The City as a Defiant Space Against Hindutva Politics. The Wire. Online


• Krishna, C.Y. (2022, 01 June). From school farewells to young romance: KK was truly the voice of millennials. The news minute. Online


• Krishna, C.Y.  & Mathew, N. (2022, 7 February). A magnet to reel in NRIs, KCR’s Yadadri temple project leaves residents uprooted. The news minute. Online.


• Krishna, C.Y. (2022, 2 February).  How Padma Shri awardee Garikapati Narasimha Rao defends caste in his videos. The news minute. Online


• Krishna, C.Y. (2021, 18 September). Search for the past: Stories from the dusty archives of the Deccan. The news minute. Online


• Shivanand, S & Krishna, C.Y. (2021, 21 January). BJP made gains in Hyderabad using history as a weapon. But how accurate is its version of the past? Scroll.in. Online


• Krishna, C.Y. (2020, 31 January). Waiting for Aazad: A chronicle of events from a meeting that did not happen in Hyderabad, Caravanmagazine.in. Online


• Krishna, C.Y. (2018, 14 March). Flaneuse in an Indian city, Café Dissensus. Online