Sujata Moorti
Biographic Data
| ID | 381082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sujata Moorti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sujata |
| FAMILY NAME | Moorti |
| SIGNATURE | MOORTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlebury College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8238-4970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Subaltern testimonies: Gender-Based Violence and Mediated Activism
Speak-out rallies have been a key site from which feminists have highlighted the prevalence of sexual violence. From these testimonies, feminists developed a nuanced articulation of the nature of sexual violence and laid the groundwork for legal and social reforms. Recently, the technological affordances of social media have amplified concerns over sexual violence and shifted the tenor of these testimonies. This essay highlights these new disposi…
Whiteness Makes the Laughs Possible: A Sitcom’s Representations of Sexual Violence
The award winning, Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019) broke new ground in representations of sexual violence. Recalibrating the energies of the sitcom to address issues of trauma, memory and witnessing, Unbreakable has helped craft a new esthetic of the genre. The four-season series replicates key features of the historical captivity narrative and the contemporaneous #MeToo movement. Ignoring the slave narrative of captivity and…
Digital Cosmopolitanisms: The Gendered Visual Culture of Human Rights Activism
International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
The first major reference work on gender and media—covering a broad range of gender-focused topics The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication comprises more than 250 entries by an international team of both established and emerging scholars in the field. This innovative resource explores how gender is represented in media, who produces the content, and the ways in which audiences receive and understand media messages. The …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction| June 01 2016 Introduction to the Special Issue Laurie Essig; Laurie Essig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sujata Moorti Sujata Moorti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2016) 3 (2): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laurie Essig, Sujata Moor…
A Queer Romance with the Hijra
I want to thank the faculty research seminar organized by the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, who provided useful feedback on a preliminary version of this article and forced me to think through my argument more thoughtfully
All-American TV Crime Drama: Law and Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study of SVU and its treatment of sexual violence, gender and criminality. This book uses detailed textual and visual analyses …
Shifting Contours of Indian Womanhood in Popular Hindi Cinema
This essay offers an overview of the shifts in representations of woman and femininity in popular Hindi cinema. Through a historical overview the essay underscores the relationship between the cinematic figure of the woman and the nation‐state. During the colonial era, the category Indian woman was a capacious one, including men who cross‐dressed and foreigners as well as Indian women. Ironically, these images were allegories for the anticolonial…
Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge! and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema
Introduction to “Framing Michael Jackson: Celebrity on Trial”
The 2005 People v. Michael Jackson trial in California—and the global media attention it precipitated—brought into focus many questions about celebrity scandal, cultural performance and identity, i
Uses of the Diaspora: Indian popular culture and the NRI dilemma
This essay examines the significance the diaspora has acquired in Indian popular culture. Through an examination of popular magazines and prime time programming, the essay illustrates the manner in which India and Indians have imaginatively accommodated the diaspora, encompassing it within the folds of a globalised Indian identity. The presence of the diaspora in popular culture helps produce new subjectivities, especially that of the new Indian …
Introduction: Gender and the plus-size body
Commentary and Criticism Is Fat Still a feminist Issue: Gender and the plus size body
Excerpt The image of the black Mammy with her turban, dark skin, and large body is a dominant icon of black womanhood in American culture, and one of her functions is as progenitor of the “big mamma” image. This derivative icon, often literally known as Big Mamma, is generally a large, older, black woman who appears throughout American popular and literary productions. She is usually a grandmother and dedicated church member, often single, and al…
Fashioning a Cosmopolitan Tamil Identity: Game Shows, Commodities and Cultural Identity
Regional-language game shows enable audiences to forge complex links between global and national identities, links that confound local/global, tradition/modernity binaries. Through an analysis of Tamil game shows I argue that this transnationally mobile genre of programming simultaneously permits the assertion of a vernacular nationalism and a cosmopolitan sensibility. The commodity culture of game shows foregrounds a Tamil cultural affiliation t…
Reality television: Fairy tale or feminist nightmare
Desperately Seeking an Identity: Diasporic Cinema and the Articulation of Transnational Kinship
Not all constructions of home in the diaspora produce virulent forms of patriotism. Visual culture offers diasporic populations the opportunity to enable an identification with the homeland that emphasizes shared affiliations and identifications. Tapping into the warehouse of images offered by western and non-western popular culture, the diasporic imaginary builds a transnational community of sentiment forged through kinship networks and affectiv…
Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women
just always had this vision of me being ...well, Donna Reed, you know. (Laughter) Donna Reed, only I never had the pearls. This comment is one of the many recorded in this book, a study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion. Over four years, Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing proje…
Cathartic Confessions or Emancipatory Texts? Rape Narratives on The Oprah Winfrey Show
L'A. porte son attention sur les «talk shows». Il s'interesse plus particulierement au Oprah Winfrey Show, une emission proposee par la television americaine, qui permet aux femmes victimes d'abus sexuels de temoigner et d'evoquer leur souffrance ainsi que les violences qu'elles ont subies. L'A. se demande, d'une part, si les recits de viols ont une fonction cathartique et, d'autre part, si les emissions televisees, comme le Oprah Winfrey Show, p…
Desperately Seeking an Identity: Diasporic Cinema and the Articulation of Transnational Kinship
Not all constructions of home in the diaspora produce virulent forms of patriotism. Visual culture offers diasporic populations the opportunity to enable an identification with the homeland that emphasizes shared affiliations and identifications. Tapping into the warehouse of images offered by western and non-western popular culture, the diasporic imaginary builds a transnational community of sentiment forged through kinship networks and affectiv…
Uses of the Diaspora: Indian popular culture and the NRI dilemma
This essay examines the significance the diaspora has acquired in Indian popular culture. Through an examination of popular magazines and prime time programming, the essay illustrates the manner in which India and Indians have imaginatively accommodated the diaspora, encompassing it within the folds of a globalised Indian identity. The presence of the diaspora in popular culture helps produce new subjectivities, especially that of the new Indian …
Reality television: Fairy tale or feminist nightmare
Fashioning a Cosmopolitan Tamil Identity: Game Shows, Commodities and Cultural Identity
Regional-language game shows enable audiences to forge complex links between global and national identities, links that confound local/global, tradition/modernity binaries. Through an analysis of Tamil game shows I argue that this transnationally mobile genre of programming simultaneously permits the assertion of a vernacular nationalism and a cosmopolitan sensibility. The commodity culture of game shows foregrounds a Tamil cultural affiliation t…
Cathartic Confessions or Emancipatory Texts? Rape Narratives on The Oprah Winfrey Show
L'A. porte son attention sur les «talk shows». Il s'interesse plus particulierement au Oprah Winfrey Show, une emission proposee par la television americaine, qui permet aux femmes victimes d'abus sexuels de temoigner et d'evoquer leur souffrance ainsi que les violences qu'elles ont subies. L'A. se demande, d'une part, si les recits de viols ont une fonction cathartique et, d'autre part, si les emissions televisees, comme le Oprah Winfrey Show, p…
Introduction: Gender and the plus-size body
Commentary and Criticism Is Fat Still a feminist Issue: Gender and the plus size body
Excerpt The image of the black Mammy with her turban, dark skin, and large body is a dominant icon of black womanhood in American culture, and one of her functions is as progenitor of the “big mamma” image. This derivative icon, often literally known as Big Mamma, is generally a large, older, black woman who appears throughout American popular and literary productions. She is usually a grandmother and dedicated church member, often single, and al…
A Queer Romance with the Hijra
I want to thank the faculty research seminar organized by the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, who provided useful feedback on a preliminary version of this article and forced me to think through my argument more thoughtfully
Cathartic Confessions or Emancipatory Texts? Rape Narratives on The Oprah Winfrey Show
L'A. porte son attention sur les «talk shows». Il s'interesse plus particulierement au Oprah Winfrey Show, une emission proposee par la television americaine, qui permet aux femmes victimes d'abus sexuels de temoigner et d'evoquer leur souffrance ainsi que les violences qu'elles ont subies. L'A. se demande, d'une part, si les recits de viols ont une fonction cathartique et, d'autre part, si les emissions televisees, comme le Oprah Winfrey Show, p…
Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women
just always had this vision of me being ...well, Donna Reed, you know. (Laughter) Donna Reed, only I never had the pearls. This comment is one of the many recorded in this book, a study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion. Over four years, Andrea Press and Elizabeth Cole watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing proje…
Desperately Seeking an Identity: Diasporic Cinema and the Articulation of Transnational Kinship
Not all constructions of home in the diaspora produce virulent forms of patriotism. Visual culture offers diasporic populations the opportunity to enable an identification with the homeland that emphasizes shared affiliations and identifications. Tapping into the warehouse of images offered by western and non-western popular culture, the diasporic imaginary builds a transnational community of sentiment forged through kinship networks and affectiv…
Fashioning a Cosmopolitan Tamil Identity: Game Shows, Commodities and Cultural Identity
Regional-language game shows enable audiences to forge complex links between global and national identities, links that confound local/global, tradition/modernity binaries. Through an analysis of Tamil game shows I argue that this transnationally mobile genre of programming simultaneously permits the assertion of a vernacular nationalism and a cosmopolitan sensibility. The commodity culture of game shows foregrounds a Tamil cultural affiliation t…
Reality television: Fairy tale or feminist nightmare
Uses of the Diaspora: Indian popular culture and the NRI dilemma
This essay examines the significance the diaspora has acquired in Indian popular culture. Through an examination of popular magazines and prime time programming, the essay illustrates the manner in which India and Indians have imaginatively accommodated the diaspora, encompassing it within the folds of a globalised Indian identity. The presence of the diaspora in popular culture helps produce new subjectivities, especially that of the new Indian …
Introduction: Gender and the plus-size body
Commentary and Criticism Is Fat Still a feminist Issue: Gender and the plus size body
Excerpt The image of the black Mammy with her turban, dark skin, and large body is a dominant icon of black womanhood in American culture, and one of her functions is as progenitor of the “big mamma” image. This derivative icon, often literally known as Big Mamma, is generally a large, older, black woman who appears throughout American popular and literary productions. She is usually a grandmother and dedicated church member, often single, and al…
Introduction to “Framing Michael Jackson: Celebrity on Trial”
The 2005 People v. Michael Jackson trial in California—and the global media attention it precipitated—brought into focus many questions about celebrity scandal, cultural performance and identity, i
Bollywood in Drag: Moulin Rouge! and the Aesthetics of Global Cinema
Shifting Contours of Indian Womanhood in Popular Hindi Cinema
This essay offers an overview of the shifts in representations of woman and femininity in popular Hindi cinema. Through a historical overview the essay underscores the relationship between the cinematic figure of the woman and the nation‐state. During the colonial era, the category Indian woman was a capacious one, including men who cross‐dressed and foreigners as well as Indian women. Ironically, these images were allegories for the anticolonial…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction| June 01 2016 Introduction to the Special Issue Laurie Essig; Laurie Essig Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Sujata Moorti Sujata Moorti Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2016) 3 (2): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.3.2.0001 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Laurie Essig, Sujata Moor…
A Queer Romance with the Hijra
I want to thank the faculty research seminar organized by the Department of Gender Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, who provided useful feedback on a preliminary version of this article and forced me to think through my argument more thoughtfully
All-American TV Crime Drama: Law and Order
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study of SVU and its treatment of sexual violence, gender and criminality. This book uses detailed textual and visual analyses …
Digital Cosmopolitanisms: The Gendered Visual Culture of Human Rights Activism
International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication
The first major reference work on gender and media—covering a broad range of gender-focused topics The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication comprises more than 250 entries by an international team of both established and emerging scholars in the field. This innovative resource explores how gender is represented in media, who produces the content, and the ways in which audiences receive and understand media messages. The …
Whiteness Makes the Laughs Possible: A Sitcom’s Representations of Sexual Violence
The award winning, Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019) broke new ground in representations of sexual violence. Recalibrating the energies of the sitcom to address issues of trauma, memory and witnessing, Unbreakable has helped craft a new esthetic of the genre. The four-season series replicates key features of the historical captivity narrative and the contemporaneous #MeToo movement. Ignoring the slave narrative of captivity and…
Subaltern testimonies: Gender-Based Violence and Mediated Activism
Speak-out rallies have been a key site from which feminists have highlighted the prevalence of sexual violence. From these testimonies, feminists developed a nuanced articulation of the nature of sexual violence and laid the groundwork for legal and social reforms. Recently, the technological affordances of social media have amplified concerns over sexual violence and shifted the tenor of these testimonies. This essay highlights these new disposi…
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