Nikita Mittal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4634620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikita Mittal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mittal |
| SIGNATURE | MITTAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology BHU |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1294-2594 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Disrupting hegemonic (hetero)masculinity: Evolving portrayal of gay men in contemporary bollywood
Heterosexuality is long regarded as the central marker of masculinity, thus marginalizing gay men as ‘unmasculine’ and ‘effeminate’. Reflecting and shaping the social discourse, Bollywood has reinforced this marginalization and largely confined gay men to sidekick roles, thereby preserving the hegemony of heteromasculinity on-screen, and substantially influencing the public understanding of ways of ‘being a man’. However, with the evolving gender…
Masking Sexuality: Studying Gay Men’s Closeting Strategies through Contemporary Bollywood
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Masking Sexuality: Studying Gay Men’s Closeting Strategies through Contemporary Bollywood
Disrupting hegemonic (hetero)masculinity: Evolving portrayal of gay men in contemporary bollywood
Heterosexuality is long regarded as the central marker of masculinity, thus marginalizing gay men as ‘unmasculine’ and ‘effeminate’. Reflecting and shaping the social discourse, Bollywood has reinforced this marginalization and largely confined gay men to sidekick roles, thereby preserving the hegemony of heteromasculinity on-screen, and substantially influencing the public understanding of ways of ‘being a man’. However, with the evolving gender…
Art (1 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (1 works) · Doing gender (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (1 works) · Hegemonic masculinity (1 works) · Hegemony (1 works) · Human sexuality (1 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (1 works) · Masculinity (1 works)