scholarly journals Demure Heroines Expressing Sexual Desire. Hints of traditional motifs in popular Hindi cinema

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Ciolfi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Joint Family ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Individual Sequences ◽  
Hindi Cinema ◽  
The Way

Università degli Studi di MilanoIn some of the most successful and representative popular Hindi films released between the 1990s and the early 2000s, the depiction of amorous feelings often takes traditional forms. The reference here is essentially to those films that come more or less within the broad category of classical family dramas: love stories that come up against all sorts of opposition, characterised by the celebration of the traditional Hindu values and the sacrality of the Indian joint-family institution. A particularly interesting aspect emerging here lies in the way in which the sexual desire of the heroine—typically a chaste and virtuous maiden—finds representation. On the strength of studied re-elaboration of traditional themes and motifs, these films achieve high levels of stylistic inventiveness and poetic refinement, albeit often limited to certain individual sequences. The apparent purpose of this aesthetic sophistication is to endow amorous feelings—always leading inexorably in the direction of marriage—with an aura of purity and authenticity. Indeed, it is a matter of sentiments so noble and intenseas to win over the consent and blessing of the families by the end of the film. The paper proposes to identify and analyse the conscious use of these traditional motifs in some of the most representative films in this area.

Pet Ownership and Adults' Views on the Use of Animals

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter G. Hepper ◽  
Deborah L. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Postal Questionnaire ◽  
Pet Ownership ◽  
Broad Category ◽  
Animal Use ◽  
Dog Owners ◽  
Dog Fighting ◽  
Horse Owners ◽  
The Way

AbstractFour hundred and twenty-two adults completed a postal questionnaire in which they provided information regarding pet ownership and their attitudes toward 13 issues involving the use of animals. Over 63% of the sample owned a household pet, with the dog being the most common. Household pets were more commonly owned by respondents who were married, younger than 65 years of age, living in detached houses, or with a child/children present in the home. Most concern was expressed toward those types of animal uses which lead to death or injury, especially dog fighting. Females expressed more disagreement than males with most of the uses o f animals examined. Dog owners expressed more approval offox-hunting and hare-coursing than non-dog owners, and horse owners expressed more approval offox-hunting than non-horse owners. This study reveals that some of the ways in which people use animals are considered more acceptable than others, and suggests that it is incorrect to group different kinds of animal use into one broad category. The authors argue that future years may see a shift in the way society uses animals, from manipulation toward care for their well-being.

scholarly journals From Narcissus to Genius through the Work of Pleshette DeArmitt

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
Marygrace Hemme
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Other ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Through my reading of the section of Pleshette Dearmitt’s book The Right to Narcissism, entitled “Kristeva: the Rebirth of Narcissus,” I illustrate the way in which DeArmitt’s reading of Narcissus is reflected in Julia Kristeva’s conception of genius. DeArmitt describes narcissism as a structure through which subjectivity, language, self-love, and love for the other come about. Narcissism develops through a metaphorical relation of identification with a “loving third” in which the subject-in-formation is transferred to the site of the other, to the place from which he or she is seen and heard through the words of the mother directed at an other. The emerging subject catches the words of others and repeats them. The speech of the other, then, is a model or pattern with which the subject-in-formation identifies repeatedly, and it is through identifying with the third that the forming subject becomes like the other, a speaking subject herself. All love comes from narcissism because it is a repetition of this identification and transference. I connect this account to Kristeva’s Female Genius Trilogy by claiming that these works are love stories since they are based on a repetition of the narcissistic structure on a cultural level in their content and in their form, though for each genius it manifests through a different register. For Hannah Arendt the relation is between the actor and the spectator; for Melanie Klein it is between the analyst and the analysand; and for Colette it is between the writer and the reader. 

scholarly journals VERSATILITY THY NAME IS AAMIR KHAN: THEMATIC STUDY OF THREE SELECTED FILMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Afaq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
Hindi Cinema ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
The Way

Hindi cinema has acquired a universal identity in Indian society as it is one of the most popular forms of entertainment, education and information in India. As purveyor of entertainment, Bollywood has provided a platform to many actors to flourish their talents as an actor. As far as Aamir Khan is concerned, acting is the life, blood, and soul of Aamir Khan. The way he portrays various characters in his movies, make him a perfect actor of versatile genre. Less studies have been conducted on Aamir Khan and his movies, and on the versatile portrayal of Aamir Khan contained in his movies. The purpose of this paper is to understand the versatile characteristics played by Aamir Khan in his movies. The present paper makes an attempt to critically analyse the three movies of different genres of Aamir Khan. These movies were purposively selected as Lagaan – a patriotic, productional and nostalgic movie, Rang De Basanti – a revolutionary, nationalistic and rebellious movie, and Taare Zameen Par – an inspirational, experimental and directorial movie, on account of their distinguishing stories. As the selected films etched a niche in the hearts and minds of cinemagoers and movie viewers due to their innovative stories and splendid cinematography, the thematic analysis was undertaken. It has been found from the study that message-oriented aspects depicted in these movies. Further, the informative, inspirational, patriotic, reformative, and revolutionary characteristics predominantly glimpsed in his movies. The versatile characteristics of Aamir Khan was also meticulously scrutinized. It has been found after having a critical analysis that Aamir Khan has versatile characteristics as depicted in these three selected movies under study.

Next Generation Multimedia on Mobile Devices

2013 ◽  
pp. 168-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikel Zorrilla ◽  
María del Puy Carretero ◽  
Alejandro Ugarte ◽  
Juan Felipe Mogollón ◽  
David Oyarzun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Multimedia Content ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Interesting Aspect ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
The Way

The multiplatform consumption of multimedia content has become a crucial factor in the way of watching multimedia. Current technologies such as mobile devices have made people desire access to information from anywhere and at anytime. The sources of the multimedia content are also very important in that consumption. They present the content from many sources distributed on the cloud and mix it with automatically generated virtual reality into any platform. This chapter analyzes the technologies to consume the next generation multimedia and proposes a new architecture to generate and present the content. The goal is to offer it as a service so the users can live the experience in any platform, without requiring any special abilities from the clients. This makes the architecture a very interesting aspect for mobile devices that normally do not have big capabilities of rendering but can benefit of this architecture.

scholarly journals DEVI TO DIVA - A TRANSFORMATIONAL JOURNEY PORTRAYING WOMEN IN MAINSTREAM BOLLYWOOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-48
Keyword(s):  
Major Influence ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Hindi Cinema ◽  
The Way

Bollywood is a major influence on Indian culture. It has shaped and expressed the changing scenarios of modern India .Hindi cinema has influenced the way in which people recognize various aspects of their own lives. Hindi cinema is largely been about stereotypes. The characters, situations and plots have been largely based on stereotypical ideologies. The audience reads the characters based on how they look, dress and talk. Over the years Indian cinema has portrayed women being ‘ The Satti Savitri, The Abla Nari ,The Sanskari ,The Wamp, to The Item Girls ,The Trophies ,The Bold beautiful and empathetic to The Ridiculed Modern women. “The paper begins with how bollywood is instrumental in shaping the culture and how it sketches womanhood. It also undertakes some glimpses from popular films to analyze the process of typecasting. A section is dedicated to the discussion on modern realistic women. In conclusion, a debate ensues on whether the mainstream cinema has been successful in portraying Indian women of different shades in a society dominated by patriarchal values.

scholarly journals Comparative Eriksonian Psychocritical Analysis of Miss Cora by Julio Cortázar, and The Lame Pigeon by Eduardo Mendicutti

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Santiago Sevilla Vallejo
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Julio Cortazar ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
Identity Confusion ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Eduardo Mendicutti ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Julio Cortázar ◽  
The Way

In the adolescence, it takes places identity exploration, in which the fundamentals that define the way the individual thinks, feels and acts would be established; or identity confusion, a defined imagine of the mentioned aspects wouldn’t be reached. In this research, we compare Miss Cora by Julio Cortázar and The Lame Pigeon by Eduardo Mendicutti, whose protagonists are two boys who are at the beginning of adolescence and they have other characteristics that set a similar starting point. Both protagonists are discovering a new manner of thinking and feeling and they have their first experience of sexual desire. However, their experiences are hard because their families and the environment that surrounds them don’t accept the change in which they are immersed and both of them suffer to forge an own identity. Miss Cora and The Lame Pigeon reflect the fragility of the construction of the adolescence identity.

scholarly journals Gra popędów. Freud o Dostojewskim

2018 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Izabella Malej
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Gambling Addiction ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
Human Emotions ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Way

The game of desires. Freud about DostoevskyThe feature S. Freud, the father of psychoanalyses, has in common with Dostoevsky is the fascination with the puzzle of human being they both tried to solve by the means of the reflection over human emotions. Freud carried out the psychological analysis of Dostoevsky’s life and work in his essay Dostoevsky and parricide 1928 where he came up with his hypothesis of Dostoevsky’s impulsive character both as a man and as a writer. The way of thinking of Austrian psychiatrist starts from Dostoevsky’s works in connection to the writer’s biography, and, particularly to numerous “shocking” events in his life the murder of his father by peasants and in this context the fact that Dostoevsky wished his father dead, the rape of a minor, allegedly commited by Dostoevsky, his passionate relationships with women, his gambling addiction. Finally Freud comes to the diagnosis — Oedipus complex. The impulse of the id, which, in Freud’s opinion, Dostoevsky was never able to tame, is the key to the puzzle of Dostoevsky’s soul. Alternately suppressed and fulfilled, not always successfully, his lust drives the author of The Adolescent towards his neurosis, the symptoms of which were his epilepsy attacks. However, according to Freud, Dostoevsky suffered not as much from epilepsy as from hysteria underlay by defective mechanism of suppression of fear. Fear of death and sexual desire are essential in this process. And the gambling addiction, according to Freud’s hypothesis, is the aftermath of Dostoevsky’s subconscious expectation of the punishment for his sins real or imaginary. Игра влечений. Фрейд о ДостоевскомОтца психоанализа, З. Фрейда, тесно связывает с Ф. Достоевским увлечение загадкой человека, которую оба пытались расшифровать путем раздумий над человеческими эмоциями. Фрейд провел психологический анализ жизни и творчества великого русского писателя в эссе Достоевский и отцеубийство 1928, в котором поставил гипотезу об инстинктивной природе Достоевского как человека и писателя. Ход мысли австрийского психиатра об авторе Бесов идет от творчества и через корреляцию с биографией писателя, особенно с имеющимися в ней «потрясающими» событиями убийство отца крестьянами и  связанное с этим желание Достоевского смерти отцу; изнасилование несовершеннолетней, вменяемое в вину писателю; бурные романы с женщинами; зависимость от азартных игр, приводит к постановке диагнозa, в основе которого лежит эдипов комплекс. Влечение id, обуздать которое Достоевскому никогда не удалось, является ключом к  разгадке души писателя. Вожделение, попеременно и не всегда успешно вытесняемое и  реализованное автором Подростка, приводит его к  неврозу, симптомами которого были приступы эпилепсии. Вместе с тем, как предполагает Фрейд, писатель страдал не столько от эпилепсии, сколько от истерии, вызванной неправильным механизмом избавления от влечений. Боязнь смерти и сексуальное влечение играют в этом процессе ведущую роль. В свою очередь, зависимость от азартных игр является, согласно Фрейду, наследием подсознательного ожидания Достоевским наказания за грехи совершенные или мнимые.

Fat in a time of slim: The reinscription of race in the framing of fat desirability in post-apartheid South Africa

Sexualities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 914-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Vincent
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Black African ◽  
Black Sexuality ◽  
African Media ◽  
Potential Challenge ◽  
The Way

This article critically examines the way in which the reported sexual desire of black African men for fat women is contained and managed in South African media representations of fat. While sexual desire for fat women represents a potential challenge to the dominant framing of fat as diseased/dysfunctional/disgusting, the article shows how the reduction of this desire to one of two (racialized) ‘explanations’ – either evidence of racial primitivism or a (black male) strategy to avoid infection with HIV – emasculates the potentially powerful oppositional framing of fat as sexy. It is a mark of the dominant frame’s influence that it is capable of co-opting oppositional frames and recasting them in its own image. From the point of view of critiques of the fat-as-disease orthodoxy, the claim to the existence of an alternative norm of fat as sexually desirable in ‘black culture’ emerges as a problematic oppositional frame – saturated with raced assumptions in the way in which it is reported. The counter framing of the (black) fat body as sexually desirable is given column space to be derided and dismissed as an instance of deviant black sexuality, as a mistaken belief in need of ‘correction’, or it is subsumed under a medicalized frame as a strategy for the avoidance of disease rather than an expression of genuine sexual desire.

scholarly journals Eros and Evanescence in the Decameron: The Weave of Love, Time, and Memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
Timothy Kircher
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Temporal Frame ◽  
The Way

This essay studies the interplay between the emotion of love and the sense of its transience, as the interplay is featured in the three authorial interventions of the Proem, the Introduction to Day 4, and the Conclusion. The author returns time and again to this interplay, emphasizing the role of memory throughout these interventions. While Boccaccio identifies eros as a guiding impulse for his story-telling and showcases sexual desire as a main theme of both the comic and tragic novelle, this study looks at the way the passages present love as highlighting the temporal nature of human existence, which, in its mortal finitude, relies on remembrance, especially the recollection of love’s transient sway, in order to foster a sensibility for life’s wholeness. The study’s approach is phenomenological. It examines the manner in which Boccaccio displays appearances—of character, mood, or circumstance—within a temporal frame. Phenomena surface and vanish in time, while being retained in memory. Above all in these three interventions Boccaccio reminds his readers to keep in view the timing of love, its absence and presence, as they become aware of their own ageing and mortality while traveling with the author through his narrative.

Pink Rupees or Gay Icons?

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie Henniker
Keyword(s):  
Media Representations ◽  
Definite Trend ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gay Communities ◽  
Hindi Cinema ◽  
The Way

Discussions of contemporary films and publications now illustrate the problematic terminology of terms like ‘gay’ or ‘camp’ in India, coupled with increasing speculation and reference to homosexuality. This article analyses media representations of Hindi cinema stars and highlights the emergence of some male stars as icons for gay communities within India and in the diaspora. Analysis of the way Bollywood celebrities are represented in India’s press in-dicates that the media has been crucial for this emergence to occur. Focussing on Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood’s most recognisable and influential star today, the article argues that while a cult of interpretation surrounds Bollywood icons, there is a definite trend of stars confronting and negotiating sexually ambiguous spaces, both on screen and off. Media ‘gossip’ and specific public responses thus serve a variety of commercial as well as socio-cultural and wider political purposes.

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