Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema

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.

Explores how feminism shines and impacts on Hindi filmmakers Alankrita Shrivastava, Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Bhavani Iyer, Farah Khan, Gazal Dhaliwal, Guneet Monga, Gauri Shinde Honey Irani, Juhi Chaturvedi, Mira Nair, Reema Kagti, Sooni Taraporevalla, Tanuja Chandra, Vijaya Mehta, Zoya Akhtar

Auteur

Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor, Dept of HSS, IIT Madras, India. Her edited anthologies comprise Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times (2020), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors (2017) and Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Global Reception & Politics of Award (2013).

Contenu

Chapter 1: Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies.- Part 1 Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres.- Chapter 2: 'Love You Zindagi': Gauri Shinde's Celebration of Women and Life on Screen.- Chapter 3: Zoya Akhtar: Global Genres and Gendered Signatures.- Chapter 4: Revisioning Family Drama: The Global Spaces of Romance and Science Fiction in Honey Irani's Stories.- Chapter 5: Women (Not) Telling Women's Stories: Tanuja Chandra's Directorial Journey from Action-Thriller to Romance and Beyond.- Chapter 6: Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise.- Chapter 7: Farah Khan: Cinephilia, Nostalgia and Melancholy.- Chapter 8: Guneet Monga: Gender, Labour and the 'Disrupter' Indie Film Producer.- Part 2 The Transnational and Postcolonial Turns.- Chapter 9: Roots and Routes: Home and the World in Sooni Taraporevala's Transnational storytelling.- Chapter 10: Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle.- Part 3 Gender, Sexuality, Subversions.- Chapter 11: Figurations of FallibleWomen: The art and act of writing by Juhi Chaturvedi.- Chapter 12: Queer Counter-narratives, Feminist Authorship, and the Inclusive Storytelling of Gazal Dhaliwal.- Chapter 13: Rosy Ki Khwaheeshein: Scripted Romance and Acquaintance Rape in Alankrita Shrivastava's Oeuvre of Female Desire.- Chapter 14: Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyer's Writings.- Part 4 Spatio-temporal specificities.- Chapter 15: Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehta's Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi.- Chapter 16: Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's Nil Battey Sannata.