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Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete book cover

1st Edition

Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema A Freedom Incomplete

By Srimati Mukherjee Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women’s roles in public and private spheres. Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition of tradition and culture regarding women in Bengali cinema. It argues the antithesis of women’s... Read more

Introduction Part I: Representations of Disjuncture: Antithetical Responses to Resistance in Public and Private Spheres 1. Feminism in a Kolkata Context: Assault, Appeasement, and Assertion in Dahan 2. The Impossibility of Incestuous Love: Woman’s Captivity and National Liberation in Utsab 3. Impermanence in Dekha: The Fragility of the Present and the Passing of a "Traditional" Perspective Part II: Narratives of Waste and Rupturing the Prohibitive 4. Woman as Alienated Commodity and Surplus Goods in Bariwali 5. Chokher Bali: A Historico-Cultural Translation of Tagore Part III: From Transactional Commodities to Subjects in Meaningful Exchange 6. Mondo Meyer Upakhyan: A Reading of Rebellion within Broken Social Systems

Biography

Srimati Mukherjee is Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

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