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Details the history of desire and anxiety underlying the cinematic representation of the modern “Indian” woman
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Interrogates the ideological representation of women in cinema—the changing images as well as the enduring prototypes—and their relationship with social and material histories
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Examines the politics of female desire/s from the 1930s till the present times—both, through in-depth analyses of single films and the tracing of typologies in multiple films
Neha’s piece: Outcast[e]/Outlawed: The Bandit Queen (1996)
Edited by
- Saswati Sengupta,
- Shampa Roy,
- Sharmila Purkayastha
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publishing date: 2019
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