Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema Looking through their Gaze
“Despite being central to any Bollywood potboiler worth its salt, women rarely feature in critical thinking about Hindi films. Addressing women as directors, scriptwriters, and producers, Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema opens up many doors for us to walk through. On women. By women. Bu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies
- Part 1 Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres
- Chapter 2: ‘Love You Zindagi’: Gauri Shinde’s Celebration of Women and Life on Screen
- Chapter 3: Zoya Akhtar: Global Genres and Gendered Signatures
- Chapter 4: Revisioning Family Drama: The Global Spaces of Romance and Science Fiction in Honey Irani’s Stories
- Chapter 5: Women (Not) Telling Women’s Stories: Tanuja Chandra’s Directorial Journey from Action-Thriller to Romance and Beyond
- Chapter 6: Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise
- Chapter 7: Farah Khan: Cinephilia, Nostalgia and Melancholy
- Chapter 8: Guneet Monga: Gender, Labour and the ‘Disrupter’ Indie Film Producer
- Part 2 The Transnational and Postcolonial Turns
- Chapter 9: Roots and Routes: Home and the World in Sooni Taraporevala’s Transnational storytelling
- Chapter 10: Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle
- Part 3 Gender, Sexuality, Subversions
- Chapter 11: Figurations of FallibleWomen: The art and act of writing by Juhi Chaturvedi
- Chapter 12: Queer Counter-narratives, Feminist Authorship, and the Inclusive Storytelling of Gazal Dhaliwal
- Chapter 13: “Rosy Ki Khwaheeshein”: Scripted Romance and Acquaintance Rape in Alankrita Shrivastava’s Oeuvre of Female Desire
- Chapter 14: Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyer’s Writings
- Part 4 Spatio-temporal specificities
- Chapter 15: Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehta’s Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi
- Chapter 16: Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s Nil Battey Sannata