Women's Transborder Cinema
eBook - ePub

Women's Transborder Cinema

Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Women's Transborder Cinema

Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. A Note on Translation and Transliteration
  7. Introduction. “I Must Be Famous to Be Heard”: Star-Authors, Female Fictions, and Transborder Modes of Women’s Cinema
  8. Part I. Maternal Modes and Infrastructural Access
  9. Part II. Corporeal Modes and Scales of National Labor
  10. Part III. Familial Modes and Scales of Transnational Crossing
  11. Coda
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Filmography
  15. Index
  16. Back Cover