Author : Indubala Singh
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Culture in motion pictures
ISBN :
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.
Author : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857287826
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Author : Shoma A. Chatterji
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Women in motion picture i ndustry
ISBN :
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.
Author : Biswal, Santosh Kumar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1799835138
Cinema in India is an entertainment medium that is interwoven into society and culture at large. It is clearly evident that continuous struggle and conflict at the personal as well as societal levels is depicted in cinema in India. It has become a reflection of society both in negative and positive ways. Hence, cinema has become an influential factor and one of the largest mass communication mediums in the nation. Social and Cultural Dynamics in Indian Cinema is an essential reference source that discusses cultural and societal issues including caste, gender, oppression, and social movements through cinema and particularly in specific language cinema and culture. Featuring research on topics such as Bollywood, film studies, and gender equality, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, film studies students, and industry professionals seeking coverage on various aspects of regional cinema in India.
Author : Srija Sanyal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 152751238X
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.
Author : Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3031167007
This book offers interdisciplinary examination of gender representations in cinema and SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) platforms in India. This book will identify how the so-called feminist enunciations in twenty-first century film and SVOD content in India are marked by an ambiguous entanglement of feminist and postfeminist rhetoric. Set against the backdrop of two significant contemporary phenomena, namely neoliberalism and the digital revolution, this book considers how neoliberalism, aided by technological advancement, re-configured the process of media consumption in contemporary India and how representation of gender is fraught with multiple contesting trajectories. The book looks at two types of media—cinema and SVOD platforms, and explores the reasons for this transformation that has been emerging in India over the past two decades. Keeping in mind the complex paradoxes that such concomitant process of the contraries can invoke, the book invites myriad responses from the authors who view the shifting gender representations in postmillennial Hindi cinema and SVOD platforms from their specific ideological standpoints. The book includes a wide array of genres, from commercial Hindi films to SVOD content and documentary films, and aims to record the transformation facilitated by economic as well as technological revolutions in contemporary India across various media formats.
Author : Francis P. Barclay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000997022
Perhaps, male-mindedness seems to have adapted to changing-contemporary circumstances to become more covert and conspiratorial. Sexist suggestions—through objectification and substantiated subordination—for instance, may have been explicit in Indian media a decade earlier. But in the contemporary times of online social media and vociferous feminism, such openness of unfairness against women in the media will, more often than not, be met with strife and unpalatable backlash—fearing which blatant prejudice is prudently steered clear of. It is, hence, understandable that patriarchy, to sustain itself as a culture, has adapted to become more benevolent in an increasingly hostile environment. To identify such sly and stealthy sexism embedded in media content, one may need a reconfigured grasp of contemporary feminist issues and an altered nuance for isolation and identification of discriminatory depictions. This book exposes redefined and hidden sexism that predominates the popular visual culture of India—particularly investigating mass and new media representations that are a prime part of and have a domineering effect on the ensemble of popular visual culture—and characterises contemporary feminist movements. It binds a collection of contemporary Indian case studies of sexism and feminism encompassing communication media such as print, cinema, television, Web series and social media. There is a lack of book titles that study media sexism in the present times, and the proposed book aims to explore an unexplored area that is of social and scholarly importance. This book highlights the duality of media platforms: while media is a critical tool associated with fourth-wave feminism, they still remain to be a deterrent to the development of women engendering inherent and age-old patriarchal notions. This book will be an eye-opener to the general readers about benevolent sexism and train them to identify sexism hidden in seemingly pro-women media representations.
Author : Sowmya Nandakumar
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN :
Historical and recent literature on the subject of the representation of women in Indian cinema suggest that in commercial (blockbuster) Indian films, grossing the highest at the Indian box office, the roles of actresses are stereotypical in nature. Publicity on the subject has explored the term "stereotypical" defining it in terms of fixed categories, arrived at on the basis of the repetitive characteristics and traits observed in the roles women play. In this thesis I will arrive at operational definitions of the term "stereotypical", which I have coined after an extensive review of literature on the subject. I will further establish with photographic examples and instances drawn from specific films and scenes that women's roles in Indian Cinema conform to these operational definitions of the term "stereotype". The term "Indian Cinema" for the purpose of this paper refers to Bollywood Cinema, made in the Indian language, Hindi. The terms "commercial" and "blockbuster" include films that have been classified by boxofficeindia.com, as "All Time Blockbuster", "Blockbuster: and "Super Hit". In terms of the monetary gross adjusted profits earned, (all adjusted to inflation), this includes films that earned anything from $70,015,847 to $76, 74,892. I aim to look specifically at the treatment of women on-screen, focusing on the lead actresses and in some cases, other important woman characters in blockbuster films over the last fifty years of Indian cinema, from the 1960s through 2011. I will analyze in detail the various kinds of roles women have played and build the premise that these roles are thrust on Indian women by the society in which they live. In the thesis, I argue that the stereotypical roles given to women are the patriarchal society's, male fantasies, projected onto film, catering to those male fantasies, so much so, that women have internalized this fantasy and don't think of them as being the patriarchal power structure's impositions on them. I will establish that the reason for this is a result of a complex mix of three factors: (i) Socio-Cultural and historical factors, (ii) the influence of epics and mythological stories of the Hindu religion on pop culture and (iii) the elements that encompass the film viewing masses and the patriarchal power structure of the social set-up in which this Indian audience lives. This is a qualitative study, which uses a number of still pictures from films, journal articles, books, film stories and interviews with media professionals to further elucidate specific aspects of the subject.
Author : Sudha Tiwari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000952061
This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices articulating themselves as cultural policy. It presents an institutional history of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), later the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), and their patronage of the New Cinema in India, from the 1960s to the 1990s, bringing into focus an extraordinary but neglected cultural moment in Indian film history and in the history of contemporary India. The chapters not only document the artistic pursuit of cinema, but also the emergence of a larger field where the market, political inclinations of the Indian state, and the more complex determinants of culture intersect — how the New Cinema movement faced external challenges from the industrial lobby and politicians, as well as experienced deep rifts from within. It also shows how the Emergency, the Janata Party regime, economic liberalization, and the opening of airwaves all left their impact on the New Cinema. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of film studies, politics and public policy, especially cultural policy, media and culture studies, and South Asian studies.
Author : Jasbir Jain
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Contributed papers discussed earlier at a workshop.
