'Bad' Women of Bombay Films
Studies in Desire and Anxiety
Shampa Roy editor Saswati Sengupta editor Sharmila Purkayastha editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Published:18th Dec '19
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This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India’s most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessary conditions for the representation of subversive female desire. The term ‘bad’ is used heuristically, and not as a moral or essential category, to examine some of the iconic disruptive women of Hindi cinema and to uncover the nexus between patriarchy and other hierarchies, such as class, caste and religion in these representations.
The twenty-one essays examine the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s to the present day - both through in-depth analyses of single films and by tracing the typologies in multiple films. The essays are divided into five sections indicating the various gendered desires and rebellions that patriarchal society seeks to police, silence and domesticate.
ISBN: 9783030267872
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381 pages
1st ed. 2019