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Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema

Author : Srija Sanyal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152751238X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema written by Srija Sanyal and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a comprehensive understanding of the queer space in tandem with the transforming socio-cultural-political relationships in a country that exhibits diversified shades of ideologies and history – that is, India. The featured essays deal with the presence of queerness in visual media, particularly in films and the digital arena, from multilingual and multicultural perspectives, thus creating an exhaustive discourse encompassing argument and analysis. This book aims to depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness, a rare scholastic endeavour.

Sex in Cinema

Author : Fareed Kazmi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788129116215
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Sex in Cinema written by Fareed Kazmi and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tragedy queen Meena Kumari to the haughty mother-in-law Lalita Pawar, women characters have been known for particular traits in Bollywood movies. This book is a history of female sexuality and its portrayal in Indian Films.

Gender Relations and Cultural Ideology in Indian Cinema

Author : Indubala Singh
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender Relations and Cultural Ideology in Indian Cinema written by Indubala Singh and published by Deep and Deep Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Indian films based on fiction through gender lens and takes into account cultural context for the studying of the films as a work of art composed on converging systems of signs, verbal as well as non verbal.

All You Want is Money, All You Need is Love

Author : Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All You Want is Money, All You Need is Love written by Rachel Dwyer and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of India's bourgeois, its lifestyle and aspirations as manifested in fiction and film. It looks at idealised womanhood and examines how these are reworked in narratives, how conflicts are resolved and new models developed.

Sexual Health and Bollywood Films

Author : Anvita Madan-Bahel
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1934043818
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Health and Bollywood Films written by Anvita Madan-Bahel and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And Conclusion P.194

Intimate Relations

Author : Sudhir Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140122664
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Intimate Relations written by Sudhir Kakar and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Ground-Breaking Work Explores In Detail India'S Sexual Fantasies And Ideals, The Unlit Stage Of Desire Where So Much Of Our Inner Theatre Takes Place . Kakar'S Sources Are Textual In The Main, Celebrating The Primacy Of The Story In Indian Life.

Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas

Author : Christine Gledhill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093666
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas by : Christine Gledhill

Download or read book Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas written by Christine Gledhill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception. With a uniquely global perspective, these essays examine the intersection of gender and genre in not only Hollywood films but also in independent, European, Indian, and Hong Kong cinemas. Working in the area of postcolonial cinema, contributors raise issues dealing with indigenous and global cinemas and argue that contemporary genres have shifted considerably as both notions of gender and forms of genre have changed. The volume addresses topics such as the history of feminist approaches to the study of genre in film, issues of female agency in postmodernity, changes taking place in supposedly male-dominated genres, concepts of genre and its use of gender in global cinema, and the relationship between gender and sexuality in film. Contributors are Ira Bhaskar, Steven Cohan, Luke Collins, Pam Cook, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Derek Kane-Meddock, E. Ann Kaplan, Samiha Matin, Katie Model, E. Deidre Pribram, Vicente Rodriguez Ortega, Adam Segal, Chris Straayer, Yvonne Tasker, Deborah Thomas, and Xiangyang Chen.

Subject Cinema, Object Women

Author : Shoma A. Chatterji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Subject Cinema, Object Women written by Shoma A. Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Is Perhaphs, The First Modest Attempt By An Indian Film Critic Delve Into The Rather Delicate Subject Of Feminist Film Criticism Within The Framework Of Indian Popular Cinema. The Idea Was Rooted In A Consistent Thrashing Of Ideas And Concepts Attacking The Patriarchal Dominance In Hindi Popular Cinema Through Articles Written In Indian Publications And Papers Presented At Seminars On Cinema Over The Past Two Decades. It Is More Of An Emotional Response To The Portrayal Of Women In Indian Cinema Than A Cerebral And Clinical Analysis Conducted Along The British Schools Of Feminist Film Criticism Based On Psycho-Analysis, Semiology And Structuralism. This Is The Result Of Three Years Of Intensive Research, Through Films, Books And Documentation Consisting Of Archival Material On Indian Cinema.

Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas

Author : K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136772847
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas written by K. Moti Gokulsing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is the largest film producing country in the world and its output has a global reach. After years of marginalisation by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the centre of the world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for this remarkable journey. Combining a historical and thematic approach, the Handbook discusses how Indian cinemas need to be understood in their historical unfolding as well as their complex relationships to social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, technical and institutional discourses. The thematic section provides an up-to-date critical narrative on diverse topics such as audience, censorship, film distribution, film industry, diaspora, sexuality, film music and nationalism. The Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting edge survey of Indian cinemas, discussing Popular, Parallel/New Wave and Regional cinemas as well as the spectacular rise of Bollywood. It is an invaluable resource for students and academics of South Asian Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies.

Dancing with the Nation

Author : Ruth Vanita
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501334433
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dancing with the Nation written by Ruth Vanita and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hindi films. They are working professionals living on their own or in matrilineal families. Like male protagonists, they travel widely and develop networks of friends and chosen kin. They have relations with men outside marriage and become single mothers. Courtesan films are heroine-oriented and almost every major female actor has played this role. Challenging received wisdom, Vanita demonstrates that a larger number of courtesans in Bombay cinema are Hindu and indeterminate than are Muslim, and that films depict their culture as hybrid Hindu-Muslim, not Islamicate. Courtesans speak in the ambiguous voice of the modern nation, inviting spectators to seize pleasure here and now but also to search for the meaning of life. Vanita's groundbreaking study of courtesans and courtesan imagery in 235 films brings fresh evidence to show that the courtesan figure shapes the modern Indian erotic, political and religious imagination.

The Cinematic ImagiNation [sic]

Author : Jyotika Virdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178240985
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic ImagiNation [sic] written by Jyotika Virdi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides Valuable Insights Into The Relationships Between Nation-Building, Gender, Sexuality, The Family And Popular Cinema. Using Post-Independence India As A Case Study. It Is An Important Constitution In The Field Of Film Criticism, Indian Film History, Cultural And Gender Studies. Contains 6 Chapters Followed By Conclusions.

Haunting Bollywood

Author : Meheli Sen
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477311580
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Haunting Bollywood written by Meheli Sen and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses this gap by focusing on some of Hindi cinema’s least explored genres. From Gothic ghost films of the 1950s to snake films of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s globally influenced zombie and vampire films, Meheli Sen delves into what the supernatural is and the varied modalities through which it raises questions of film form, history, modernity, and gender in South Asian public cultures. Arguing that the supernatural is dispersed among multiple genres and constantly in conversation with global cinematic forms, she demonstrates that it is an especially malleable impulse that routinely pushes Hindi film into new formal and stylistic territories. Sen also argues that gender is a particularly accommodating stage on which the supernatural rehearses its most basic compulsions; thus, the interface between gender and genre provides an exceptionally productive lens into Hindi cinema’s negotiation of the modern and the global. Haunting Bollywood reveals that the supernatural’s unruly energies continually resist containment, even as they partake of and sometimes subvert Hindi cinema’s most enduring pleasures, from songs and stars to myth and melodrama.

Global Bollywood

Author : Anandam P. Kavoori
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081474799X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Global Bollywood written by Anandam P. Kavoori and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Bollywood brings together leading scholars to examine the transnational and transmedia terrain of Bollywood. Defining Bollywood as an arena of public culture distinct from Hindi-language Bombay cinema, this volume offers a new critical framework for analyzing the institutional, cultural, and political dimensions of Bollywood films and film music as they begin to constitute an important circuit of global flows in the twenty-first century.

Rated a

Author : Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520397452
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Rated a written by Darshana Sreedhar Mini and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A, Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped Malayalam soft-porn cinema--such as vernacular pulp fiction, illustrated erotic tales, and American exploitation cinema--and maps the genre's circulation among blue-collar workers of the Indian diaspora in the Middle East, where pirated versions circulate alongside low-budget Bangladeshi films and Pakistani mujra dance films as South Asian pornography. Through a mix of archival and ethnographic research, Mini also explores the soft-porn industry's utilization of gendered labor and trust-based arrangements, as well as how actresses and production personnel who are marked by their involvement with a taboo form negotiate their social lives. By locating the tense negotiations between sexuality, import policy, and censorship in contemporary India, this study offers a model for understanding film genres outside of screen space, emphasizing that they constitute not just industrial formations but entire fields of social relations and gendered imaginaries.

Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema

Author : Srija Sanyal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527512177
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema written by Srija Sanyal and published by . This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a comprehensive understanding of the queer space in tandem with the transforming socio-cultural-political relationships in a country that exhibits diversified shades of ideologies and history - that is, India. The featured essays deal with the presence of queerness in visual media, particularly in films and the digital arena, from multilingual and multicultural perspectives, thus creating an exhaustive discourse encompassing argument and analysis. This book aims to depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness, a rare scholastic endeavour.

Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema

Author : Monika Mehta
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292742517
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema written by Monika Mehta and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring. Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.

Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema

Author : Peter C. Pugsley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317137280
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Morality and Sexuality in Asian Cinema written by Peter C. Pugsley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that arise over aesthetic styles and the cultural and traditional influences that determine the content and impact of these films. The social and regulatory environments for filmmakers across Asia reflect distinct national and cultural differences. In just the past decade, for instance, Indian cinema has rapidly moved from representations of coy and submissive female protagonists to highly eroticized leading ladies unafraid of flaunting their sexuality. On the other hand, the cinema emerging from the Chinese mainland has been much more circumspect in its representations of overt sexuality, at times in conflict with other Chinese cinemas from Hong Kong and Taiwan. This use of sexual imagery or morally questionable film content raises on-going debates into censorship and the use of state or industry controls to protect certain sectors of society from exposure to particular narratives or images. Film, like all forms of art, fulfils a number of aesthetic functions for local, regional and international audiences. As distribution and technological advances make Asian films more readily available across the globe, an understanding of the different aesthetics at play will enable readers of this book to recognize key cultural motifs in representations of onscreen sexuality and the surrounding controversies found in cinematic texts from Asia.