Screening trans narratives
Representation of transwomen in Indian regional cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22232137 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neethu S Nair (0000-0003-0407-4720, Anna University, Chennai, corresponding author), Deepa Mary Francis (0000-0002-9286-7327, Anna University, Chennai) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2662-9992 • E-ISSN: 2662-9992 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41599-024-04153-4 |
| OpenAlex | W4404796328 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
In India, the cinema industry has gotten a facelift with the absorption of regional cinema into its defined and confined boundaries, which was earlier a monopoly of commercial Bollywood films as well as award-winning Hindi films. One of the pertinent problems it deals with is the societal, political, and individual negligence towards the marginalised and underprivileged gender minority communities in different parts of the country. This essay traces how transwomen are represented in Indian regional cinema and how the two representative South Indian films, Nanu Avanalla Avalu ( 2015 ) and Njan Marykutty ( 2018 ), chosen for study, become visual texts which mark clear demarcation from the existing trans narratives and call for a progressive perception to the representation of transwomen in regional cinema. A critical analysis of these films brings forth the nuances and politics of the representation of transwomen on screen by emphasising the construction and contestation of transfemininity and its association with the visible and invisible cisheteronormative patriarchal power play prevalent in society. It also examines the cinematic construction of transphobia directed towards transwomen and concludes on how such progressive narratives can pave the way for an inclusive society through sensitisation of their experiences and issues to a mass audience
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Movie theater · Narrative · Political science · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Invisible Lives
Hijras
Mapping the Queer Body
Beyond Bollywood and Hindi
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
With Respect to Sex
“Doing Fear”
Gender Trouble
Transphobia
Beyond the binary
Construction and contestation of identity and politics
Struggling for ordinary
Hijras in Bollywood Cinema
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Biyuti from Below
Sexual Identities and the Media
Mediating hijra in/visibility
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |