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IMAGING THE NATION:
SEXUAL ECONOMIES IN CONTEMPORARY BOMBAY CINEMA
Karen Gabriel
Rs. 450 Hb 2008
81-88965-49-9
(All rights available)
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This insightful analysisi of popular Bombay cinema presents a
comprehensive discussion of its contemporary history,
background, financing and social and political underpinnings.
It maps the cultural landscape of this medium tracing the relationship
between the state, cinema and society. It reviews the
ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated in the
organisation of images, and demonstrates how heterosexuality
operates as a stabiliser within ths constellation. More
generally, it looks at the emergence of heroes and anti-heroes,
at the changing faces of masculinity, at femininity, and the regulation of desire, and at Bollywood’s construction of gender, sexuality, and the nation. |
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KAREN
GABRIEL
is currently Fellow,
Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi.
She has taught at St.Stephen's College, University of Delhi,
and works on issues of gender and sexuality.. |
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