Megha Anwer
Biographic Data
| ID | 108229 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megha Anwer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megha |
| FAMILY NAME | Anwer |
| SIGNATURE | ANWER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Honors College, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3189-046X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of Women, Gay Men, and Dead Cats: The Precarity of Neoliberal Aspirations in Made in Heaven (2019)
Written by Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, and Alankrita Shrivastava, the first season of the nine-episode web series, Made in Heaven, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 8 March 2019 to great acclaim, garnering praise for being both “daring and revelatory” in its “provocative exploration of gender, marriage and love” and for offering “binge-worthy television” (Qureshi). In this essay, we examine how Made in Heaven investigates women’s lives as they nav…
Pathaan and its politics
Released on 25 January 2023, the Bollywood blockbuster film Pathaan , an action-spy thriller featuring India’s beloved superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK or King Khan to his fans), shattered box-office records. Pathaan ’s spectacular success is the starting point for this Special Section. Scholars of Indian cinema offer their reflections on the larger political-cultural conversations within which the film is embedded and that it has ignited, not least…
Pathaan, precarity and the Muslim question in neoliberal India
In India’s current censorial political climate, Pathaan ’s subtle jabs against authoritarianism, jingoistic nationalism and communal ideologies make it an unusual and innovative cinematic-political intervention despite its clichéd genre-elements. Yet we argue that the film’s diagnosis of what needs intervention is inadequate and its interventionist apparatus is counterproductive. The film uses all the accoutrements of a neo-liberal image-economy …
ImNotAChickFlick: Neoliberalism and Post-feminism in Veere Di Wedding (My Friend’s Wedding , 2018)
Released in 2018, Shashanka Ghosh’s Veere Di Wedding ( VDW; My Friend’s Wedding), dubbed as India’s answer to Sex and the City, evoked mixed responses. While many reviews of the film denounced it for its vulgarity and tawdriness, frivolity, flippant vision of women’s liberation and as a threat to Indian values, others, however, celebrated it for its frank depiction of female desires. This article undertakes a close study of the film to argue that…
The incest wound in Hindi cinema: Childhood trauma and feminist futures in Monsoon Wedding and Highway
In this essay we ask questions about the ideological and diagnostic function that the incest trope serves in post-liberalization India-based cinema. We examine Monsoon Wedding and Highway to argue that the incest trope operates as a sign-post of globalized Bollywood’s altering relationship with the family, as a metonymic signifier of the discursive shifts in India’s relationship to liberalization, as well as a filmic mechanism that enables us to …
In defense of violent films: Incorporating cinematic violence and on-screen death in the undergraduate classroom
In a cultural moment when professors experience a debilitating hesitancy about initiating difficult conversations with undergraduate students, and the imperative of trigger warnings sometimes outwe
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), pp. 434–435
Tigers of an-other jungle: Adiga's tryst with subaltern politics
Critical responses to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger reveal two conflicting trends: one set of critics argues that the novel feeds into an orientalist fantasy of India as an underdeveloped and impoverished third world postcolony. Criticism at the other end of the spectrum celebrates Adiga's novel for rupturing the myth of a "New India". This article explores the multiple underlying anxieties that shape the responses of Adiga's detractors, and ar…
Tigers of an-other jungle: Adiga's tryst with subaltern politics
Critical responses to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger reveal two conflicting trends: one set of critics argues that the novel feeds into an orientalist fantasy of India as an underdeveloped and impoverished third world postcolony. Criticism at the other end of the spectrum celebrates Adiga's novel for rupturing the myth of a "New India". This article explores the multiple underlying anxieties that shape the responses of Adiga's detractors, and ar…
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), pp. 434–435
Tigers of an-other jungle: Adiga's tryst with subaltern politics
Critical responses to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger reveal two conflicting trends: one set of critics argues that the novel feeds into an orientalist fantasy of India as an underdeveloped and impoverished third world postcolony. Criticism at the other end of the spectrum celebrates Adiga's novel for rupturing the myth of a "New India". This article explores the multiple underlying anxieties that shape the responses of Adiga's detractors, and ar…
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), pp. 434–435
The incest wound in Hindi cinema: Childhood trauma and feminist futures in Monsoon Wedding and Highway
In this essay we ask questions about the ideological and diagnostic function that the incest trope serves in post-liberalization India-based cinema. We examine Monsoon Wedding and Highway to argue that the incest trope operates as a sign-post of globalized Bollywood’s altering relationship with the family, as a metonymic signifier of the discursive shifts in India’s relationship to liberalization, as well as a filmic mechanism that enables us to …
In defense of violent films: Incorporating cinematic violence and on-screen death in the undergraduate classroom
In a cultural moment when professors experience a debilitating hesitancy about initiating difficult conversations with undergraduate students, and the imperative of trigger warnings sometimes outwe
ImNotAChickFlick: Neoliberalism and Post-feminism in Veere Di Wedding (My Friend’s Wedding , 2018)
Released in 2018, Shashanka Ghosh’s Veere Di Wedding ( VDW; My Friend’s Wedding), dubbed as India’s answer to Sex and the City, evoked mixed responses. While many reviews of the film denounced it for its vulgarity and tawdriness, frivolity, flippant vision of women’s liberation and as a threat to Indian values, others, however, celebrated it for its frank depiction of female desires. This article undertakes a close study of the film to argue that…
Of Women, Gay Men, and Dead Cats: The Precarity of Neoliberal Aspirations in Made in Heaven (2019)
Written by Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, and Alankrita Shrivastava, the first season of the nine-episode web series, Made in Heaven, premiered on Amazon Prime Video on 8 March 2019 to great acclaim, garnering praise for being both “daring and revelatory” in its “provocative exploration of gender, marriage and love” and for offering “binge-worthy television” (Qureshi). In this essay, we examine how Made in Heaven investigates women’s lives as they nav…
Pathaan and its politics
Released on 25 January 2023, the Bollywood blockbuster film Pathaan , an action-spy thriller featuring India’s beloved superstar Shah Rukh Khan (SRK or King Khan to his fans), shattered box-office records. Pathaan ’s spectacular success is the starting point for this Special Section. Scholars of Indian cinema offer their reflections on the larger political-cultural conversations within which the film is embedded and that it has ignited, not least…
Pathaan, precarity and the Muslim question in neoliberal India
In India’s current censorial political climate, Pathaan ’s subtle jabs against authoritarianism, jingoistic nationalism and communal ideologies make it an unusual and innovative cinematic-political intervention despite its clichéd genre-elements. Yet we argue that the film’s diagnosis of what needs intervention is inadequate and its interventionist apparatus is counterproductive. The film uses all the accoutrements of a neo-liberal image-economy …
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)