Shreya Rastogi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5401023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shreya Rastogi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shreya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rastogi |
| SIGNATURE | RASTOGI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Television culture and the beauty bias problem
This study aims to critically analyze the problem of the beauty bias prevalent in contemporary India with the help of popular postmillennial Hindi television serials. It begins with a review of literature on television’s social impact and then demonstrates how representations of women on Indian television have historically been deeply interwoven with hegemonic perceptions of appearance. It then examines as case studies five popular tele serials w…
The Trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather’s Time”
This essay reads evolving cultures of white American middle-class masculinity in tandem with ekphrastic symbolisms of domestic architecture in Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread. It interprets the text as a subversive narrative where if hegemonic gender norms oppress women and children, they also often confine men primarily to the role of a provider and alienate them from their own shelters. Accordingly, by focusing on the profound connection be…
The changing politics of beauty labour in Indian cinema
This essay analyses the changing politics of beauty labour and female body image in Indian cinema. It begins by discussing how beauty, a social capital for women, is a measuring rod with which their bodies are both assessed and objectified. It claims that cinema being a visual medium demands some aesthetic capital from actors, and the beauty of leading ladies portrayed on screen often adds to the spectacle. Focusing on mainstream Bollywood films …
Heterotopic Homes
This paper offers a spatial reading of Joyce Carol Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys (1996). It argues that restructured domestic spaces depicted in the novel underscore the possibility of alternate homesteads that celebrate female choice and autonomy. Since We Were the Mulvaneys presents various models of domesticity coupled with a variety of domestic spaces that range from stifling to empowering, this paper engages specifically with architectural a…
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The changing politics of beauty labour in Indian cinema
This essay analyses the changing politics of beauty labour and female body image in Indian cinema. It begins by discussing how beauty, a social capital for women, is a measuring rod with which their bodies are both assessed and objectified. It claims that cinema being a visual medium demands some aesthetic capital from actors, and the beauty of leading ladies portrayed on screen often adds to the spectacle. Focusing on mainstream Bollywood films …
Heterotopic Homes
This paper offers a spatial reading of Joyce Carol Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys (1996). It argues that restructured domestic spaces depicted in the novel underscore the possibility of alternate homesteads that celebrate female choice and autonomy. Since We Were the Mulvaneys presents various models of domesticity coupled with a variety of domestic spaces that range from stifling to empowering, this paper engages specifically with architectural a…
The Trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather’s Time”
This essay reads evolving cultures of white American middle-class masculinity in tandem with ekphrastic symbolisms of domestic architecture in Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread. It interprets the text as a subversive narrative where if hegemonic gender norms oppress women and children, they also often confine men primarily to the role of a provider and alienate them from their own shelters. Accordingly, by focusing on the profound connection be…
Television culture and the beauty bias problem
This study aims to critically analyze the problem of the beauty bias prevalent in contemporary India with the help of popular postmillennial Hindi television serials. It begins with a review of literature on television’s social impact and then demonstrates how representations of women on Indian television have historically been deeply interwoven with hegemonic perceptions of appearance. It then examines as case studies five popular tele serials w…
Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Beauty (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)