Esha Niyogi De
Biographic Data
| ID | 249901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esha Niyogi De |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esha Niyogi |
| FAMILY NAME | De |
| SIGNATURE | DE E N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women’s Action Cinema in Pakistan
This article examines the ambivalent aesthetics of Urdu action heroine films directed and produced by the female star, Shamim Ara, and promoted in their day (1980s) as a cinema for women. Released under the Islamist military regime of Zia-ul-Haq, these films draw on action genres from elsewhere, thanks to rampant video trade/piracy. Historians dismiss such films as exploitative and escapist. A close look at the arts of depicting fights and choreo…
Female-Star-Authorship across South Asia
If women’s angry controversies with oppressive systems have been central to feminist consciousness-raising, expressions of systemic female indignation have tended to be marginalized or suppressed in the bourgeois female-and-family-centered “Socials” born of Pakistani and Indian national cinema cultures in the 1950’s through 1970’s. Turning to mainstream cinema that responds to feminist mobilization, this article excavates the reflexive role taken…
Conjugations
Choice” and Feminist Praxis in Neoliberal Times
This article addresses the visual debate around a new image of the autonomous woman emerging on satellite television in West Bengal, India, a region rapidly changing under the influx of multinational finance. While this image appears to promote a revolutionary vision of choice opposing gender stratifications, it responds to the sexual anxieties of a shifting postcolonial context by reconciling women's choices with patriarchal and communalist valu…
Trans-Status Subjects
Modern Shakespeares in popular Bombay cinema
Journal Article Modern Shakespeares in popular Bombay cinema: translation, subjectivity and community Get access Esha Niyogi De Esha Niyogi De Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/43.1.19 Published: 01 March 2002
Female-Star-Authorship across South Asia
If women’s angry controversies with oppressive systems have been central to feminist consciousness-raising, expressions of systemic female indignation have tended to be marginalized or suppressed in the bourgeois female-and-family-centered “Socials” born of Pakistani and Indian national cinema cultures in the 1950’s through 1970’s. Turning to mainstream cinema that responds to feminist mobilization, this article excavates the reflexive role taken…
Modern Shakespeares in popular Bombay cinema
Journal Article Modern Shakespeares in popular Bombay cinema: translation, subjectivity and community Get access Esha Niyogi De Esha Niyogi De Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/43.1.19 Published: 01 March 2002
Trans-Status Subjects
Modern Shakespeares in popular Bombay cinema
Journal Article Modern Shakespeares in popular Bombay cinema: translation, subjectivity and community Get access Esha Niyogi De Esha Niyogi De Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 19–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/43.1.19 Published: 01 March 2002
Choice” and Feminist Praxis in Neoliberal Times
This article addresses the visual debate around a new image of the autonomous woman emerging on satellite television in West Bengal, India, a region rapidly changing under the influx of multinational finance. While this image appears to promote a revolutionary vision of choice opposing gender stratifications, it responds to the sexual anxieties of a shifting postcolonial context by reconciling women's choices with patriarchal and communalist valu…
Conjugations
Female-Star-Authorship across South Asia
If women’s angry controversies with oppressive systems have been central to feminist consciousness-raising, expressions of systemic female indignation have tended to be marginalized or suppressed in the bourgeois female-and-family-centered “Socials” born of Pakistani and Indian national cinema cultures in the 1950’s through 1970’s. Turning to mainstream cinema that responds to feminist mobilization, this article excavates the reflexive role taken…
Women’s Action Cinema in Pakistan
This article examines the ambivalent aesthetics of Urdu action heroine films directed and produced by the female star, Shamim Ara, and promoted in their day (1980s) as a cinema for women. Released under the Islamist military regime of Zia-ul-Haq, these films draw on action genres from elsewhere, thanks to rampant video trade/piracy. Historians dismiss such films as exploitative and escapist. A close look at the arts of depicting fights and choreo…
Sociology (6 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Movie theater (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works)