Shifting Contours of Indian Womanhood in Popular Hindi Cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23720601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sujata Moorti (0000-0002-8238-4970, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444361506.wbiems069 |
| OpenAlex | W1510937793 |
| ISBN | 9781444361506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
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 nation‐in‐formation. In the postcolonial era (1950s–1980s), the figure of the woman symbolized the many facets of India's struggle for self‐reliance. Since the 1990s, images of Indian women have become one of the primary sites where the anxieties of globalization are worked through. The essay argues that contemporary Bollywood films offer a very limited repertoire of images of the ideal Indian woman. However, Hindi films from an earlier era offered more tantalizing possibilities for the articulation of a female subjectivity.
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology) · Colonialism · Femininity · Hindi · Ideal (ethics) · Indian English · Indian literature · Linguistics · Literature · Movie theater · New Woman · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subjectivity · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |