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Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema : Looking Through Their Gaze by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema : Looking Through Their Gaze about?
This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry. It derives from the major theories of modernity, postmodern feminism, semiotics, cultural production, and gender performativity in globalized times. The collection transcends the traditional approaches of looking at films made by women filmmakers as ‘feminist’ cinema, and focuses on an extraordinary group of women filmmakers like Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, Bhavani Iyer, Farah Khan, Mira Nair Vijaya Mehta, and Zoya Akthar. The volume will be of interest to academics and theorists of gender and Hindi cinema, as well as anybody interested in contemporary Hindi films in their various manifestations.
Who reads Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema : Looking Through Their Gaze?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan (editor)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783031102325
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Performing Arts, Science, Sports
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