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{{short description|Indian film scholar, author and freelance journalist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}{{Use Indian English|date=November 2020}}

'''Shoma A. Chatterji''' is an Indian film scholar, author and freelance journalist.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2020-11-21|title=Chatterji, Shoma|url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/shoma-a-chatterji|website=[[SAGE Publications Inc]]|language=en}}</ref> She has been the recipient of a number of awards including the [[National Film Award for Best Film Critic]] in 1991 and the [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|National Awards for Best Writing on Cinema]] for her study of the works of [[Aparna Sen]] in the publication, ''Parama and Other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen'' (2002).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Routledge Handbook on Indian Cinema|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2013|isbn=9781138311480|editor-last=Gokulsing|editor-first=K. Moti|pages=xi|editor-last2=Dissanayake|editor-first2=Wimal}}</ref><ref name="50thawardPDF" /> Notably, she is the only woman to have won both the national awards.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mukherjee|first=Rina|date=29 January 2014|title=Shoma Chatterji wins National Award for best author – NWM India|url=https://www.nwmindia.org/newsmakers/shoma-chatterji-wins-national-award-for-best-author-2002/|access-date=2020-11-22|website=Network of Women in Media, India|language=en-US}}</ref> She is the author of several biographies including those on [[Pramathesh Barua]], [[Ritwik Ghatak]] and [[Suchitra Sen]].

Between 2005–2006, Chatterji was a research fellow at the [[National Film Archive of India]], following which between 2006–2007, she was a senior research fellow at the PSBT Delhi and then a senior research fellow at the [[Indian Council of Social Science Research]] between 2009–2011.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Born and educated in Mumbai,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Chowdhury|first=Nandita|date=23 August 1999|title=Author Shoma Chatterji tracks the woman in Indian films|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/19990823-author-shoma-chatterji-tracks-the-woman-in-indian-films-824373-1999-08-23|access-date=2020-11-22|website=[[India Today]]|language=en}}</ref> Chatterji has two [[Master's degree]]s in economics and education and a [[PhD]] in Indian cinema history.<ref name=":0" /> Following her education, she was a lecturer in economics at a local college until 1991.<ref name=":2" />

== Awards ==

* [[National Film Award for Best Film Critic]] in 1991 for film criticism in the [[Bengali language]].<ref name="38thawardPDF">{{cite web|title=38th National Film Awards|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215163809/http://dff.nic.in/2011/38th_nff_1991.pdf|access-date=9 January 2012|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|pages=116-117|format=PDF}}</ref>
*[[Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards|Bengal Film Journalists Association’s Best Critic Award]] in 1998.
* [[National Film Award for Best Book on Cinema|National Awards for Best Writing on Cinema]] in 2002 for a study of the works of [[Aparna Sen]].<ref name="50thawardPDF">{{cite web|title=50th National Film Awards|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303224027/http://dff.nic.in/2011/50nfa.pdf|access-date=14 March 2012|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|page=121|format=PDF}}</ref>
* Bharat Nirman Award for "excellence in journalism" in 2004.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Live Encounters Magazine September 2017|url=https://issuu.com/liveencounters/docs/live_encounters_magazine_september__60e1350ff37496/6|access-date=2020-12-02|website=[[Issuu]]|pages=6-7|language=en}}</ref>
* UNFPA–Laadli Media Special Award for "consistent writing on women’s issues" in 2009.<ref name=":3" />
* Kalyan Kumar Mitra Award for "excellence in film scholarship and contribution as a film critic" in 2010.<ref name=":3" />
* Lifetime Achievement SAMMAN by the [[Rotary Club]], Calcutta-Metro City in 2012.<ref name=":3" />

== Selected works ==

* ''The Indian Women's Search for an Identity.'' (1988) Vikas Publishing House. {{ISBN|978-0-70-694642-0}}.
* ''The Indian Woman in Perspective.'' (1993) Ajanta Publications. {{ISBN|978-81-202-0332-7}}.
* ''Kamini: And Other Stories.'' (1997) Alka Publications. {{ISBN|978-8-12-410520-7}}.
*''Subject-cinema, Object-woman: A Study of the Portrayal of Women in Indian Cinema.'' (1998)
* ''Baker's Dozen: Short Stories from India.'' (2001) Rupa & Company. {{ISBN|978-81-291-0039-9}}.
* ''Parama and Other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen.'' (2002) Parumita Publications. {{ISBN|978-81-87867-03-6}}.
* ''Ritwik Ghatak: The Celluloid Rebel.'' (2004) Rupa & Company. {{ISBN|978-81-291-0245-4}}.
* ''Women in Black, White, and Technicolour.'' (2004) Rupa & Company. {{ISBN|978-81-291-0396-3}}.
* ''Sinemā śudhu sinemā naẏa'' (Movies are not just movies, 2004)
* ''Mrinal Sen: The Survivor.'' (2005) Rupa & Company. {{ISBN|978-81-291-0198-3}}.
* ''Goddess Kali of Kolkata.'' (2005) UBS Publishers. {{ISBN|978-81-7476-514-7}}.
* ''Gender and Conflict.'' (2006) UBS Publishers. {{ISBN|978-81-7476-552-9}}.
* ''P.C Barua.'' (2008) Wisdom Tree Publishers. {{ISBN|978-81-8328-104-1}}.
* ''Women in Perspective: Essays on Gender Issues.'' (2010)
* ''P.C. Barua: Legends of Indian Cinema.'' (Vasudev, Aruna, ed; 2011) SCB Distributors. {{ISBN|978-81-8328-226-0}}.
* ''100 Years of Jump-cuts and Fade-outs: Tracking Change in Indian Cinema.'' (2014) Rupa & Company. {{ISBN|978-81-291-2915-4}}.
* ''Filming Reality: The Independent Documentary Movement in India.'' (2015) [[SAGE Publications]]. {{ISBN|978-93-5150-543-3}}.
* ''Suchitra Sen: The Legend and the Enigma.'' (2015) [[HarperCollins]]. {{ISBN|978-93-5177-639-0}}.
* ''Woman at the Window: The Material Universe of Rabindranath Tagore Through the Eyes of Satyajit Ray.'' (2017) [[HarperCollins]]. {{ISBN|978-93-5136-503-7}}.
* ''The Cinema of Bimal Roy: An 'Outsider' Within.'' (2017) [[SAGE Publications]]. {{ISBN|978-93-86062-87-1}}.

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