Chapter 1: Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies -- Part 1 Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres -- Chapter 2: Love You Zindagi: Gauri Shindes 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 Iranis Stories -- Chapter 5: Women (Not) Telling Womens Stories: Tanuja Chandras 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 Taraporevalas Transnational storytelling -- Chapter 10: Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle -- Part 3 Gender, Sexuality, Subversions -- Chapter 11: Figurations of Fallible Women: 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 Shrivastavas Oeuvre of Female Desire -- Chapter 14: Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyers Writings -- Part 4 Spatio-temporal specificities -- Chapter 15: Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehtas Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi -- Chapter 16: Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwaris Nil Battey Sannata.
Summary:
"Over the last three decades, the Bombay film industry has witnessed a significant rise in the numbers of women who, in different professional capacities, have contributed to the creation of films for theatrical release and streaming platforms. This anthology invites a range of scholars to reflect on this moment. The outcome is rich with ideas that promise to inspire a new set of conversations." Shohini Ghosh, Sajjad Zaheer Professor, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, India 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. 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).
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