Framing the Feminine: Diasporic Readings of Gender in Popular Indian Cinema
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
This essay focuses on the ways in which Indian immigrant women actively engage and interpret Indian cinema. Employing an ethnographic approach, the analysis moves between readers' readings and film texts in order to locate how Indian cinema mediates the constitution of gendered identities in the diaspora. Keeping alive the sense of agency, this study demonstrates that Indian women viewers/readers simultaneously comply with and resist the dominant patriarchal representations that saturate Indian cinema.
Recommended Citation
Ram, A. (2002). Framing the feminine: Diasporic readings of gender in Indian cinema. Women’s Studies in Communications, 25(1), 25-52.
Comments
Published in: Women’s Studies in Communications, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002.