'Bad' women of Bombay films : studies in desire and anxiety /: studies in desire and anxiety. (©2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy, Sharmila Purkayastha, editors.
• Other Names: Sengupta, Saswati; Roy, Shampa; Purkayastha, Sharmila
• Contents: 1. Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy and Sharmila Purkayastha : Introduction: Breaking BadThe Disorderly Presence at Home2. Ira Bhaskar:Desire, Deviancy and Defiance in Bombay Cinema (1937-1960)3. Shampa Roy, Saswati Sengupta: 'haan, haan mein alaida hoon!' (Yes, yes I am different!): the Disorderly Bibi in Sahib, Bibi aur Ghulam (1962)4. Mrinal Pande:The Goddess of Mean Things: the Mother-in-law in Hindi Films5. Anjali Yadav, Anusha Choudhary, Divya Gupta, Ifsha Zehra, Neha Jaji Varghese, Prachi Khari, Shaifali Singh, Soumya Sharma, Tooba Towfiq, Violina Barman:'ek admi tha, usne shadi karli!' ('There was a man who got married!'): Female Agency and Domestication in Omkara (2006) The Business of the Body6. Deepika TandonThe Politics of Sanitisation / Sanskritisation: the Court Dancers and Classical Pasts (Rajnartaki, 1941; Chitralekha, 1964; Amrapali, 1966)7. Ruth Vanita:Goddess, Saint and Journeying Soul: Courtesans and Religion in Bombay Cinema (1939-2015)8. Sameera Mehta:The Prison-House of Performance: the Figure of the Dancing Girl in Bombay Films of the1960s9. Neha Yadav:Guns, Gangsters and 'Gandagi': the Moll in Hindi Cinema10. Rakesh Shukla:Sex Workers in Hindi Cinema: Imagos and RealitiesThe Question of Violence11. Smita Banerjee: The Caged Woman: Female Guilt, Desire and Transgression in Bandini (1963)12. Menka Ahlawat:'itni bhhi mahaan main nahi hoon, raja!' ('I'm not that great, O king'): the Angry Young Woman of the 1970s13. Neha Dixit:Outcast[e] / Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996)14. Isha Purkayastha: The Female Atankvadi: Gender, Militancy and the Politics of Representation in the late 90s.15. Nonica Datta: Honoured Mother and 'Honour' Killing: Ammaji in NH10 (2015) The Advent of the New Woman16. Nupur Mittal:Of Pallus and Pants: Fabricating the New Woman of the New Nation Andaz (1949), Mr. and Mrs. 55 (1955), Shri 420 (1955)17. Megha Anwer: Consumer Pleasures and Hindi Cinema's En-gendered Distribution of Moral Capital in Hum Aapke Hain Koun (1994) and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)18. Puja Sen: Twenty-first century Heroines: Modernity in Cocktail (2012), Queen (2014) and Highway (2014)19. Abhija Ghosh:Curiosity, Consent and Desire in Masaan (2015), Pink (2016), Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016) and Veere Di Wedding (2018). The Screening of the Actress 20. Shikha Kothiyal:'naye naam nit naye roop dhar' (Don new names and new forms daily): the Figure of the Actress in Hindi Cinema21. An Interview with Swara Bhaskar: Playing Anaarkali: Gender, Morality and Erotica.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (384 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43/6522; Women in motion pictures; Motion pictures and women -- India; Motion pictures, Hindi -- India; Motion pictures and women; Motion pictures, Hindi; Women in motion pictures; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030267889; 3030267881
• Related ISBNs: 9783030267872; 3030267873
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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