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This book looks into the ways in which contemporary Indian cinema, particularly 2010 onwards, has represented women on screen - not just on films and TV, but also on new media platforms like OTT and other digital media. It will be of great interest to scholars of film studies, gender studies, culture studies, and South Asian studies.
List of contents
1. Challenging Norms, Subverting Stereotypes: An Overview of the ‘New-ness’ of Representations Part I: “Social Media and Visual Culture” 2. #MeToo and Time’s Up: Slippage of Facework in Malayalam Cinema and Industry 3. Indian Women Rising: Tracing Star and Screen Coordinates of the Hindi Film Industry post #MeToo 4. No Country for Aunties: Gender, Age, South-Asian Diaspora and Stereotypes in Brown Feminist Instagram Art Part II: “Feminism and Contemporary Indian Cinema" 5. Experience in/of Cinema: Gender and Spectatorial Subjectivity in The Great Indian Kitchen 6. Controlling the Narrative? Female Journalists in New Cinema in Kannada 7. Exonerating Disruptive Mothers and Rebellious Daughters: Individualized Femininities in Shakuntala Devi and Tribhanga-Tedhi Medhi Crazy 8. Feminist Optics: Women and Gender in Contemporary Popular Bengali Cinema 9. De/Sexed Ageing: Representations of Female Sexual Subjectivities in Select Indian Media Texts 10. ‘Glocal’ Contestations through Female Subjectivity: Narratives from Small-town India in Dum Laga Ke Haisha and Anaarkali of Aarah Part III: “Producing Cinema of Disruptions” 11. Women Producing Cinema: Guneet Monga and the Rise of the Independent Global Producer in India 12. Producing the Vampire: Neo-Victorian Afterlife of the ‘Un-Dead’ and Contemporary Sexual Crime in the Cinema of Anushka Sharma
About the author
Aysha Viswamohan is professor in the Department of HSS at IIT Madras. She works in the areas of Film studies, Fashion studies and American Literature. She has published in journals from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Penn State University, Routledge, Sage, and Intellect. Her recent books comprise edited anthologies: Women Filmmakers in Hindi Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times (Springer, 2020), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors (Sage, 2017) and Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Global Reception & Politics of Award (Anthem, 2013). She was awarded Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s Canadian Faculty Enrichment Program Fellowship in 2009. She was a Visiting Faculty at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver in 2012.
Summary
This book looks into the ways in which contemporary Indian cinema, particularly 2010 onwards, has represented women on screen - not just on films and TV, but also on new media platforms like OTT and other digital media. It will be of great interest to scholars of film studies, gender studies, culture studies, and South Asian studies.
