FILMS AND FEMINISM: Essays in Indian Cinema
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- ISBN13: 9788131607121
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher Imprint: Rawat
- Pages: 358
- Language: English
- Edition: Second
- Item Weight: 500
- BISAC Subject(s): Mass Media
Films and Feminism: Essays in Indian Cinema explores both mainstream and parallel cinema for an analysis of the woman image, the idea of romance, the imposition and defiance of patriarchal order and a woman’s journey towards self-definition.
Films reach a wider audience than literature as they move across the barriers of class, literacy, religion and even language. Not only do they reflect reality, they also construct reality. Their reach and impact makes it imperative to work through the rhetoric and melodrama of the medium to unearth the subtleties and ambiguities which lie within.
This second edition, with a new introduction attempts to capture the shifts that have taken place since its earlier publication. With four new essays supplementing the earlier twenty four, the shifts in film techniques and film audiences, the blurring of the line between alternative and commercial cinema and women’s image of themselves are brought out. Largely focusing on Hindi cinema, there is also a reflection of Bengali and Kannada cinema. This new edition enlarges the scope of the inquiry into feminist concerns and feminine representation.
The volume makes a significant contribution to film, gender and literary studies as it opens up multiple dimensions of inquiry.
Films reach a wider audience than literature as they move across the barriers of class, literacy, religion and even language. Not only do they reflect reality, they also construct reality. Their reach and impact makes it imperative to work through the rhetoric and melodrama of the medium to unearth the subtleties and ambiguities which lie within.
This second edition, with a new introduction attempts to capture the shifts that have taken place since its earlier publication. With four new essays supplementing the earlier twenty four, the shifts in film techniques and film audiences, the blurring of the line between alternative and commercial cinema and women’s image of themselves are brought out. Largely focusing on Hindi cinema, there is also a reflection of Bengali and Kannada cinema. This new edition enlarges the scope of the inquiry into feminist concerns and feminine representation.
The volume makes a significant contribution to film, gender and literary studies as it opens up multiple dimensions of inquiry.
Jasbir Jain, formerly of the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur has written on a wide range of areas. She has been working on films for more than two decades. Amongst her latest works are Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency, recently also translated into Hindi, Theorizing Resistance and The Diaspora Writes Home: Subcontinental Narratives. Currently she is working on Post Enlightenment and Modernism.
Sudha Rai, formerly Head, Department of English, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur has worked in the area of diasporic writing, Australian indigenous writing; and cultural constructions of disability. She is a recipient of the Senior Fellowship (2008-09) awarded by the Australia-India Council, and was Visiting Research Professor (2010) at Paul Valery University, Montpellier III (France). Rai is currently on a Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. She is the author of V.S. Naipaul: A Study in Expatriate Sensibility (1982) and Homeless by Choice: Naipaul, Jhabvala, Rushdie and India (1992).
Sudha Rai, formerly Head, Department of English, and Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur has worked in the area of diasporic writing, Australian indigenous writing; and cultural constructions of disability. She is a recipient of the Senior Fellowship (2008-09) awarded by the Australia-India Council, and was Visiting Research Professor (2010) at Paul Valery University, Montpellier III (France). Rai is currently on a Senior Research Fellowship awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. She is the author of V.S. Naipaul: A Study in Expatriate Sensibility (1982) and Homeless by Choice: Naipaul, Jhabvala, Rushdie and India (1992).