Bollywood Women and Indian Society

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Edited by Ambrish Saxena

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > India
Keywords: Hindi cinema, women, sociology
Publishing date: 2019
Publisher: Kanishka Publishers
Language: English

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Hardcover • 232 pages
5 ½ x 8 inches (14 x 20 cm)

ISBN

978-81-937070-7-4

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Book Presentation:
Women have a distinguished place in Indian society and their status inside and outside home is always kept at a high pedestal. No doubt, we witness these days incidents of exploitation of women sexually and otherwise, but these could be aberrations. In India, family ties are strong and the focal point in these ties is women in different roles of mother, wife and sister.

Indian films portray women in different colours and shades. Bollywood i.e. Hindi cinema is flooded with women centric films if we look at the films particularly released since last decade. This book talks about this trend while analysing many such films in which lady actors play dominant roles.

The aspects of sex and sexuality have also been dominating Bollywood. So, many authors in this book have written about labelling of women as weaker sex and female sexuality. Also, Hindi films on the theme of homosexuality have been analysed by scholars. Even issues like the role of Bollywood in normalising stalking of women have been picked up for analyses.

To the delight of rational and progressive human beings issues of feminism. empowerment and emancipation of women in different forms are being chosen by contemporary Indian filmmakers. Films like Queen, Padman and Toilet Ek Prem Kasha have been picked up for study by researchers and you can read the findings of such studies in this book.

Films contribute to social transformation as well by rejecting social divide in the name of caste and community. While some films take up the issue of representation of Muslim women, others delve into issues of dalit representation. This book carries articles on such pertinent themes as interpreted in Indian films.

This book is broadly divided in four segments.

Part I: Women Centric Films in Bollywood

Part 2: Sex and Sexuality in Bollywood

Part 3: Feminism and Liberation in Bollywood

Part 4: Social Equations in Bollywood

About the Author:
Dr. Ambrish Saxena, Dean, DME Media School and Director. DME Studios and Production, is an accomplished media professional. educator, trainer, researcher, author, anchor and political analyst. He has worked at different media platforms ranging from theatre, puppetry. print, radio, television to films, before switching over to media academics.

Dr. Saxena has worked with many media groups, The Pioneer, Amrit Bazar Patrika, Aaj,JVG Times and ZEE. He has worked for the first ever TV news magazine Parakh during 1990s. He has been anchoring the highly rated programme of AIR FM Gold Market Mantra since the inception of the channel in 2001.

Dr. Saxena has academic association with more than 20 universities of India which include 4 central, 5 state and 9 private/deemed universities. He has 27 books to his credit as sole author, main author, chapter writer and editor. He has a long list of research papers presented in national (17) and international (26) seminars/conferences.

Dr. Saxena was part of the Indian Educators' delegation to China in 2008, participated in International Conference at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia in 2016 and presented papers at Pre-Conference in Portland and Conference in Eugene. Oregon, United States, organized by IAMCR in 2018.

Manmeet Kaur is Assistant Professor in DNIE Media School at Delhi Metropolitan Education. Noida, affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha Unix ersity, Delhi. She was university topper in Guru Nanak Devi University in 2011. She qualified UGC-NET in the year 2012. She is pursuing PhD from Gum Nanak Dev University. Her area of specialisation is Film Studies. She has been presenting papers at national/international conferences and has published papers in research journals.

Divya Rastogi is Assistant Professor in DME Media School at Delhi Metropolitan Education, Noida (Affiliated to GGSIP University, Delhi). She is a pursuing PhD from Galgotias University, Greater Noida. She has more than eight years of academic and industry experience. Her specialisation is in the field of event management. She has contributed in various research journals. She has presented papers at seminar and conferences and have written chapters in books.

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