Gender Sexuality And Indian Cinema

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India, with an emphasis on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This book attends to issues of capitalism, nationalism, orientalism, and modernity through understandings of race, gender and sexuality, religion, and politics.

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.