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Women in Contemporary Indian Films and Media
Edited by Aysha Viswamohan
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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, ‘Time’s 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.
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.
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