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.
This book investigates the ways in which contemporary Indian cinema, particularly 2010 onwards, has projected and represented women on screen not just on films and TV but also on new media platforms like OTT and other digital media.
The wide-ranging essays reflect on issues of gender violence, sexuality, performance, domestic and public spaces, along with the role of women in the Indian film industry. They draw on current global discourses on gender including #Me Too, Times Up, LGBTQIA, and a call for wages for women on a par with their male counterparts and other socio-cultural debates in the Indian society.
The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of film studies, gender studies, culture studies, and South Asian studies.
1. Challenging Norms, Subverting Stereotypes: An Overview of the
New-ness of Representations Part I: Social Media and Visual Culture
2.
#MeToo and Times 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
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 Institutes Canadian Faculty Enrichment Program Fellowship in 2009. She was a Visiting Faculty at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver in 2012.
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