Women's Transborder Cinema

Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia

Esha Niyogi De (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08828-5 (ISBN)

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Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions from a uniquely comparative perspective, delving into examples of women holding influential positions as stars, directors, and producers across the film industries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

De uses film tropes to examine the ways women directors and film entrepreneurs claim creative control within the contexts of anti-colonial nationalism and global capitalism. The region’s fictional cinemas have become staging grounds for postcolonialism, with colonial and local hierarchies merged into new imperial formations. De’s analysis shows how the gendered intersections of inequity and opportunity shape women’s fiction filmmaking while illuminating the impact of state and market formations on the process.

Innovative and essential, Women’s Transborder Cinema examines the works of South Asia’s women filmmakers from a regional perspective.

Esha Niyogi De is a senior lecturer in the Writings Programs division at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the coeditor of South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters and author of Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman: A Feminist Critique of Postcolonial Thought.

Acknowledgments

A Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction. “I Must Be Famous to Be Heard”: Star-Authors, Female Fictions, and Transborder Modes of Women’s Cinema

Part I. Maternal Modes and Infrastructural Access

Decoupled Maternities: Female Stars in Production Modes, Kolkata
Public Maternities: Women’s Companies and a Sororal Production Mode, Dhaka

Part II. Corporeal Modes and Scales of National Labor

Performing Bodies: Entertainer Authors and Small-Scale Urdu Cinema in Lahore Studios
Timing Bodies: Hindi Cinema and a Female Brand Author at Bollywood Scale

Part III. Familial Modes and Scales of Transnational Crossing

Families Out of Bounds: The Pirate Mode and Women’s Coproductions across Pakistan and Bangladesh
Families Torn and Found: Feminist Modes and Transnational Bangla Media

Coda

Notes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Women’s Media History Now!
Zusatzinfo	24 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	0-252-08828-X / 025208828X
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08828-5 / 9780252088285
Zustand	Neuware