Jyotsna Kapur
Biographic Data
| ID | 132044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jyotsna Kapur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jyotsna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kapur |
| SIGNATURE | KAPUR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4038-9749 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
Committed to exposing the ways in which the personal is always crosshatched with the social and the political, Filipino filmmaker Jeffrey Jeturian’s traces the relentless conversion of all forms of social experience into economic transactions. Whether in Pila Balde [Fetch a Pail of Water]) or Kubrador [Bet Collector], 2006) Jeturian’s films thematize the neoliberal transformation of social individuals into calculative entrepreneur-consumers. This…
An “Arranged Love” Marriage
In the last decade of the 20th century, coinciding with India's economic deregulation, the Hindu wedding became a core attraction in popular Indian cinema. Weddings in real life, in turn, became more elaborate organized by a wedding industry, which professionalized and commodifed work that was previously done by an informal economy or outside of it by members of the family. Evoking the Frankfurt School, this paper locates the big wedding as a pro…
There Once Was a Maiden and a Middle Class
Coinciding with India's turn to neoliberalism, a new genre-the conspiracy thriller-has appeared in popular Hindi cinema. Its aesthetics of speed, movement, and surprise express the fear and furious reasoning of an individual who must save her- or himself from a conspiracy that threatens to destroy them. This article contextualizes the genre in the urban spaces of neoliberalism, its architecture of private enclosures, and the paranoid subjectiviti…
Gender, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Asian Cinemas
The claim that regardless of our location we are nevertheless networked into global events, movements and political-economic developments is now commonplace. What has also become clear is that this
Fear on the Footsteps of Comedy
Beginning in the 21st century the American conspiracy thriller, one of the most popular of contemporary genres, became preoccupied with scenarios of protagonists threatened with the loss of children. What had until recently been the subject of light-hearted family films, i.e., on the growing up of children and the growing down of adults, reappeared here as a reason for dread. Tracing the very gendered nature of this fear in the contemporary thril…
Rehearsals for war
Love in the Midst of Fascism
Obsolescence and Other Playroom Anxieties
This paper discusses the changing socialization of children to consumer culture at the end of the twentieth century by comparing how three different texts have historically constructed children's relationship to toys, which I argue are both market-produced commodities and also serve as an analogy for commodified labor. The lessons we teach children about the “proper” relationship to toys have implicit in them the social construction of what it me…
Film reviews
Xingú: Body and soul Body and Soul (O Corpo e os Espímtos). Directed by Mari Corréa; camera, Dado Aguiar; sound, Myaú Kayabi. 1996; 54 mins., color. Portuguese narration; English subtitles. Distributor: Les Films du village, 24–26 rue des Prairies, 75020, Paris, France. Emancipation Efforts of African Women: Two Activist Films I Have a Problem, Madam. Directed by Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele. 1995, 59 minutes, VHS, color. Distributed by Fir…
A small world after all
This essay investigates the phenomenon of global television in India and how Indian children, particularly those from the upper middle class, are being integrated into a global consumer cuitare. I suggest that in spite of the surface homogeneity of children's culture global capitalism mediates experiences of children differentially depending on class and location. It has led to greater class stratification in children's play and Indian children, …
The art of ethnographic film and the politics of protesting modernity
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An “Arranged Love” Marriage
In the last decade of the 20th century, coinciding with India's economic deregulation, the Hindu wedding became a core attraction in popular Indian cinema. Weddings in real life, in turn, became more elaborate organized by a wedding industry, which professionalized and commodifed work that was previously done by an informal economy or outside of it by members of the family. Evoking the Frankfurt School, this paper locates the big wedding as a pro…
There Once Was a Maiden and a Middle Class
Coinciding with India's turn to neoliberalism, a new genre-the conspiracy thriller-has appeared in popular Hindi cinema. Its aesthetics of speed, movement, and surprise express the fear and furious reasoning of an individual who must save her- or himself from a conspiracy that threatens to destroy them. This article contextualizes the genre in the urban spaces of neoliberalism, its architecture of private enclosures, and the paranoid subjectiviti…
Fear on the Footsteps of Comedy
Beginning in the 21st century the American conspiracy thriller, one of the most popular of contemporary genres, became preoccupied with scenarios of protagonists threatened with the loss of children. What had until recently been the subject of light-hearted family films, i.e., on the growing up of children and the growing down of adults, reappeared here as a reason for dread. Tracing the very gendered nature of this fear in the contemporary thril…
Update
The art of ethnographic film and the politics of protesting modernity
A small world after all
This essay investigates the phenomenon of global television in India and how Indian children, particularly those from the upper middle class, are being integrated into a global consumer cuitare. I suggest that in spite of the surface homogeneity of children's culture global capitalism mediates experiences of children differentially depending on class and location. It has led to greater class stratification in children's play and Indian children, …
Film reviews
Xingú: Body and soul Body and Soul (O Corpo e os Espímtos). Directed by Mari Corréa; camera, Dado Aguiar; sound, Myaú Kayabi. 1996; 54 mins., color. Portuguese narration; English subtitles. Distributor: Les Films du village, 24–26 rue des Prairies, 75020, Paris, France. Emancipation Efforts of African Women: Two Activist Films I Have a Problem, Madam. Directed by Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele. 1995, 59 minutes, VHS, color. Distributed by Fir…
Obsolescence and Other Playroom Anxieties
This paper discusses the changing socialization of children to consumer culture at the end of the twentieth century by comparing how three different texts have historically constructed children's relationship to toys, which I argue are both market-produced commodities and also serve as an analogy for commodified labor. The lessons we teach children about the “proper” relationship to toys have implicit in them the social construction of what it me…
Rehearsals for war
Love in the Midst of Fascism
An “Arranged Love” Marriage
In the last decade of the 20th century, coinciding with India's economic deregulation, the Hindu wedding became a core attraction in popular Indian cinema. Weddings in real life, in turn, became more elaborate organized by a wedding industry, which professionalized and commodifed work that was previously done by an informal economy or outside of it by members of the family. Evoking the Frankfurt School, this paper locates the big wedding as a pro…
There Once Was a Maiden and a Middle Class
Coinciding with India's turn to neoliberalism, a new genre-the conspiracy thriller-has appeared in popular Hindi cinema. Its aesthetics of speed, movement, and surprise express the fear and furious reasoning of an individual who must save her- or himself from a conspiracy that threatens to destroy them. This article contextualizes the genre in the urban spaces of neoliberalism, its architecture of private enclosures, and the paranoid subjectiviti…
Gender, Neoliberalism and Contemporary Asian Cinemas
The claim that regardless of our location we are nevertheless networked into global events, movements and political-economic developments is now commonplace. What has also become clear is that this
Fear on the Footsteps of Comedy
Beginning in the 21st century the American conspiracy thriller, one of the most popular of contemporary genres, became preoccupied with scenarios of protagonists threatened with the loss of children. What had until recently been the subject of light-hearted family films, i.e., on the growing up of children and the growing down of adults, reappeared here as a reason for dread. Tracing the very gendered nature of this fear in the contemporary thril…
Neoliberalism and Global Cinema
Committed to exposing the ways in which the personal is always crosshatched with the social and the political, Filipino filmmaker Jeffrey Jeturian’s traces the relentless conversion of all forms of social experience into economic transactions. Whether in Pila Balde [Fetch a Pail of Water]) or Kubrador [Bet Collector], 2006) Jeturian’s films thematize the neoliberal transformation of social individuals into calculative entrepreneur-consumers. This…
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