Women and emergent agency in the cinema of Aparna Sen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12713633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mantra Roy (0000-0002-8615-5200, University of Washington, corresponding author), Aparajita Sengupta (Film Independent) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 53-71 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Popular Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-6689 • E-ISSN: 1474-6697 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14746689.2014.937056 |
| OpenAlex | W3163028110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Our article examines four of Aparna Sen's films, 36 Chowringhee Lane, Mr and Mrs Iyer, Paromitar Ek Din (House of Memories), and 15 Park Avenue, and locates a gradual progression in the emergent agencies of the leading women characters in the context of feminist movements in India. The first section of the article situates Aparna Sen as actor and director in the context of Bengali and New Wave/Parallel Cinema in order to provide readers with a background to her career. Then we demonstrate that Sen emphasizes self-reliance and self-fulfilment, the keys of strategic feminism in Kolkata, as each of her characters enacts self-motivated agencies. While Ms Stoneham is forced to embrace her loneliness, Mrs Iyer protects a Muslim co-passenger's life on her own; while Sanaka and Paromita resist their lives' boundaries on their own, Meethi boldly steps into her ‘reality’ all by herself. We also argue that Sen's polyvocal feminist lens includes the pluralistic identities of women in India, including different affiliations of class, ethnicity, religion, and educational background, for example, thereby making her a feminist filmmaker whose inclusive perspective extends her regional identity
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Art history · Bengali · Context (archaeology · Feminism · Film director · Identity (music · Intersectionality · Loneliness · Media studies · Movie theater · Social science · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Social Psychology · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |