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Books

• The Art of Advertising (2004).
• Media Violence and Children’s Rights (2003).
• Media Image of Women (2002).
• Three Auspicious Cookoos – Soviet Short Stories. (Translation) (2001)

Journal Articles

• Popular Indian Cinema: A New Genre of Political Cinema (MARGI 2016)
• Popular Indian Cinema as a New Trend of Political Cinema (2007).
• Making News and Misleading the Society (2007).
• Cultural Meaning of News (2008).
• Television News: Truth and Lies (2008).
• Impact of Advertising on Society (2009).
• Social Impact of Television News (2010).
• (60 articles published in Sinhala medium News papers) (1995 to date).

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Education Qualifications

• Reading for PhD on Popular cinema and Political communication(Jawaharlal Nehru University-New Delhi – 2014)
• M.Phil (Mass Communication) Kelaniya – 2008.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Development Communication (IIMC – New Delhi) – 2007.(PTI Award Winner)
• B.A. (Hon) Mass Communication (First Class) Kelaniya – 1992.
• Diploma in Russian Language (Pushkin Institute) Moscow. 1988

Professional Interests

• Cross Cultural Studies.
• Gender Studies.
• Advertising.
• Print Media.

Work Experience

• Senior Lecturer in Mass Communication. University of Kelaniya from 2005 to date.
• Consultant to the Ministry of Media (2005 January to July)

 – Consultant editor of the Government News Magazine.

• Production Executive  – National Film Corporation  (2002)

– Supervision of Film Productions of the National Film Corporation (16 films)

– Conducting Workshops for Production Manager

– Planning Publicity Campaigns for Films.

• Manager Social Marketing – Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (2001).

– Introducing New Programme Structures.

– Promoting Commercial Success of the same.

– Organizing a net work of listeners club covering a range of nearly 4,000 villages.

– Assistant Lecturer in Mass Communication – University of Kelaniya (1994-1999).

– Media Assistant – University Grant Commission – 1993.

Other Offices

• Member of the Public Performance Board (2004-2006).
• Member of the Selection Committee of National Film Corporation for Providing Funds for film productions (2005 to 2006).
• Member of the selection committee of the film corporation for evaluating film scripts (2002 to 2006).
• Member of the committee of the National Library Services for evaluation of Manuscripts (2011 to 2012).
• Member of the Tele Drama Selection Committee of the National Rupavahini Corporation (2003-2011).
• Member of the Jury of the Annual Film Awards of the International Catholic Cinema Forum (OCIC) (1995 to date).
• Member of the Annual Tele Drama Awards of the International Catholic Cinema Forum (UNDA – SIGNS) (1995 to date)
• Member of the Jury of the State Film Awards - 2003/2007.

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Wimal Dissanayake is a leading scholar of Asian cinema. He has published a large number of books on the subject including, Melodrama and Asian Cinema (Cambridge University Press), New Chinese Cinema (Oxford University Press), Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema (Indiana University Press), and Indian Popular Cinema (Trentham Publishers). Prof. Dissanayake has also published widely in areas of communication and cultural Studies, including such books as Global/Local (Duke University Press) and Narratives of Agency (Minnesota University Press), Transcultural Pacific (University of Illinois Press. He was the founding editor of the East-West Film Journal, and has served as editorial advisor to such prestigious publications as International Encyclopedia of Communication, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Framework, Deep Focus, World Englishes, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture. He is regarded as a pioneer in the field of Asian communication theory. He is the general editor of a book series on Hong Kong cinema for the Hong Kong University Press.

Wimal Dissanayake is also a bilingual poet; he publishes poetry in his mother tongue, Sinhalese and in English. He was awarded the Publishers Prize for the outstanding book of poetry in Sri Lanka and has published English poetry in such journals as Hawaii Review, Kaimaana, Bamboo Ridge, Cambridge Review and Pawn. He has been living in Hawaii for the past twenty five years.

මහනුවර ත්‍රිත්ව විද්‍යාලයෙන් මූලික අධ්‍යාපනය ලබා එවකට ශ්‍රී ලංකා විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයට ඇතුළත්ව සිංහල පිළිබඳ ගෞරව උපාධිය හිමිකරගත් මහාචාර්ය විමල් දිසානායක මහතා පේරාදෙණිය ගුරුකුලයෙන් බිහි වූ ස්වාධීන බුද්ධිමතෙකු ලෙස සැලැකිය හැකිය. සිය ප්‍රථම උපාධිය සඳහා එතුමා විෂයන් ලෙස තෝරා ගත්තේ සිංහල, සංස්කෘත හා ඉංග්‍රීසි යන භාෂා ත්‍රිත්වයයි. ඉන්පසු එංගලන්තයේ කේම්බ්‍රිජ් විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයට ඇතුළත්ව ආචාර්ය උපාධිය ලබා ගත්තේ ඉංග්‍රීසි සාහිත්‍යය විෂයය කරගනිමිනි. ඉන්පසුව 1975 දී අධි ශිෂ්‍යත්වයක් ලැබ පෙන්සිල්වේනියා සරසවියෙන් පශ්චාත් ආචාර්ය උපාධිය ලබා ගන්නේ ජන සන්නිවේදනය හා සිනමාව විෂයය කරගනිමිනි. මෙරට සන්නිවේදන විෂයයෙහි පුරෝගාමී විද්වතුන් වූ විමල් දිසානායක මහතා කැලණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ ජන සන්නිවේදන අධ්‍යනාංශයේ  පළමු අංශාධිපතිවරයා වශයෙන්  කටයුතු කළ අතර 1979 දී ඇමරිකාවේ හවායි විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයට පත් වීමක් ලැබ විදේශගත විය. එතුමා දැනට එහි ජන සන්නිවේදනය පිළිබඳ මහාචාර්යවරයා මෙන්ම හොංකොං විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ සම්මාන මහාචාර්ය පදවියක් ද උසුලනු ලැබේ. මේ වන විට සිංහල මහාචාර්යවරයකු මෙන්ම ඉංග්‍රීසි මහාචාර්යවරයකු වශයෙන් කටයුතු කිරීමේ දුර්ලභ භාග්‍ය හිමිකරගත් එකම ශ්‍රී ලාංකික විද්වතා වන්නේ ඔහුය. සන්නිවේදනය, විත්‍රපට වේදය, සංස්කෘතික අධ්‍යයනය, මාධ්‍ය අධ්‍යයනය, පශ්චාත්නව්‍යවාදය වැනි විවිධ විෂයය කේෂත්‍රයන් අලලා ඔහු විසින් ඉංග්‍රීසි හා සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් රචිත කෘති 40 කට අධිකය.

Experience in Administration in the University

• Former Head of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya.
• Former Director of the Media Unit, University of Kelaniya.
• Academic Advisor Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
• Co - controller in communication and media studies for advanced level examination in the department of examinations, Sri Lanka.

Experience in Other Institutions

• Advisory committee member Rangiri Sri Lanka Media Network.
• Visiting Lecturer in Police Academy, Katana and Police College, Kalutara

Educational Qualifications

• PhD in the department of communication studies, faculty of Science,University of Pune, India
• MA, BA in Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya.

Experience in Mass Media

• Worked as a member of “Sanniwedan Samiksha” documentary program at Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.
• Lecturing communication and media studies lecture series in Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation.
• Resource Person in the program of Development Communication in Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation.

Experience in Research Field

• Research in listening radio, Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, 1979
• Research in the Tools of Public Relation in Sri Lanka, 1995
• Research in listening radio, Mahaveli Community Radio, 1982
• Research in viewer’s response in television, 1995
• Research in traditional communications of Sri Lanka, 1997
• Research in development communication and customer’s behavior, 2000
• Research in introducing development communication model to the of North Western province Sri Lanka, 2002
• Health Communication and Rural Development, North Western province Sri Lanka, 2017
• Health Communication and Rural Community, North Western province Sri Lanka,2017

Countries Visited for International Conferences

• India, Indonesia, Australia

Countries Visited for Research and Academic Purposes

• Australia, Austria, France, Germany, India, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand Vietnam, Indonesia,

Key Note Speaking in International Conferences

• GRDS International Conference in Social Sciences and Humanities in Sri Lanka October 2018.
• Co – Editor of “Sanskruthika Puranaya” 1^st Volume – 7^th Volume, Central Cultural Fund, Ministry of Cultural Affairs.
• Co – Editor of “Madya Wimarshi ” series
• Co – Editor of “Sanniwedakaya” 1^st Volume – 5^th Volume,
• Author of the book “Public Relations”
• Co – Editor of “Sanniwedana”academic Journal.

Articles

• “How to develop the taste of the audience”  Divaina News Paper 1992
• “The Communication Ideology of Paranavithana’s on Historical Arts” , Sanacrutika Puranaya 1992
• “Non Verbal Communication” , Madya Wimarshi II, 1992
• “Development Communication”, Sanniwedakaya, 1997
• “The effect on the society by Media” Bauddaloka Academic Journal, 1998
• “Development and Development Communication” ,Sanniwedana academic Journal, 2003
• The Challenges face by Sri Lanka with the Development”,Sanjanani Souvenir, 2004
• “The effect of Mass media in Modernizing the Traditional Societies”, Madya Wimarshi iv, 2005
• “Health Communication, Culture and Behaviour Changes” Sandasara felicitation volume for Professor Chandrasiri Rajapaksha, 2016
• “New Trend of News Paper Towards Development Communication” Madya Sameeksha II, 2013
• “Reality of Right for Expression” Nidahas Madya, 2013
• “The Great Character of Anagarika Dharmapala” Nidahasa 64, 2012
• “ Does the Television Media act as a Development Myth” Salalihiniwatha, 2012
• "Health Communication and Rural Community" felicitation volume for Professor Rohana Luxman Piyadasa, 2016