scholarly journals Indian Cinema: Making Departure from the Stereotypical Presentation of Women in Nuptial

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Dr. Priyanka Kulhari
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Sexual Consent ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Made In

In the late 20th and 21st century various movements took place which challenged the stereotypical notions of gender in society. #MeToo movement gave a momentum to the society where people started talking about any kind of violence, sexual assault and harassment against women. Many government policies and laws were framed and implemented to provide equal opportunities to women in every field. Vishakha Guidelines and Internal Complains Committee are made mandatory at work place and education institutions to assure a safe and healthy environment for females. Now the issues brushed under the carpet for long have been brought into light. Issues which were considered taboo even to talk about are now discussed on public forums and academia, penned down in literature and projected in media and cinema. Women and their concerns and point of views found space in popular cinema and were acclaimed too by the critics as well as spectators. Bollywood has made deviations from the stereotypical portrayal of women and broke the silence on issues like sexual consent and female sexuality. It also showed the role of woman in marriage and how it’s changing with woman becoming economically independent and realizing her real worth. The present paper will deliberate on the institution of marriage and the role of woman in it in the Indian society especially in the context of Indian cinema. It will discuss recent Indian cinema which came with stories in which decision-making power has been exercised by women in a nuptial and consent of a girl in a marriage has been considered. Gender roles in a marriage will also be analysed which has been shown deviating from the stereotypical notion especially in the movies Ki & Ka and Tumahari Sulu. It will include the movies which have at the centre the idea that the courage of a woman can put a full stop to the deep-rooted patriarchy of centuries in our society. The paper will include only popular cinema made in Hindi language film industry known as Bollywood in the last decade like Dil Dhadkane Do, Badrinath Ki Dulhania, Secret Superstar, Parched and Tumhari Sulu.

scholarly journals The power of Bollywood: A study on opportunities, challenges, and audiences’ perceptions of Indian cinema in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 205943642110226
Author(s):  
Yanyan Hong
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
Star Power ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Cultural Connections

India has long been known for its prestigious Mumbai-based film industry, namely Bollywood, and remains by far the largest producer of films in the world. With the growing global reach of Indian cinema, this study looks at an intriguing Indian-film fever over the last decade in the newly discovered market of China. Through examining key factors that make Indian films appealing to Chinese and exploring the opportunities and challenges of Indian cinema in China, this article draws upon insights gained from the narratives of local audiences. Data were collected from semi-structured interviews with 32 Indian-film audiences residing across 14 different cities in mainland China. Thematic analysis identified the following five appealing factors, which explain why the Chinese enjoy Indian films: content-driven story, social values, star power, audience reviews and cultural connections. While a comprehensive list of opportunities was derived showing the potential future of Bollywood in China, results found that China’s unique institutional context and an ongoing India–China geopolitical tensions also present challenges, which in turn add to the overall complexity of films’ success in the Chinese market. This article argues the powerful role of Bollywood in bridging cultures and improving India–China ties, as Indian films have made Chinese people more aware of India in a favourable way.

scholarly journals MULTICULTURAL FACTORS AND THE REPRESENTATION OF ACID ATTACK SURVIVORS IN INDIAN SOCIETY BASED ON MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
pp. 84-90
Author(s):  
S.Aswini CHITHRA ◽  
Archana ARUL
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Acid Attack ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Gender Based

Women considered to the goddess nature and praised in the form of Land and Rivers, but struggle to buy bread and basics in day today life. Women face violence everywhere in every form such as domestic, gang rape, acid throwing, and sexual violence at work place, dowry death and forced abortion. Acid Attack is worldwide and it is considered to be the most abominable form of gender based violence against women. According to India Today Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) the statistics released by National Crime Records Bureau shows between 2014 and 2018, states that there have been 1,483 victims of acid attack happened in the country. The Victims are taunted, shamed and disfigured for no fault on theirs. It is the need of the hour to examine the gender based violence against Women in India; its cause and consequence, as this is an untold tale in the subparts of the country. On the other hand, Indian Cinema is an effective mass communication medium and continues to evolve. There is always a strong bonding between cinema and Indian Society as it is a cultural role player for Indian Audience as well as immigrants where it promotes the uniqueness of multiculturalism of Indian Society.. The role of Women in Indian Cinema acted between the dichotomy of passive subject and Pleasurable Object. Indian New wave made a shift in the screen and contributed dialogues to women‟s role and position. Women became a subject on lens. The representation of women in Indian cinema still endures with controversy and characterized by diverse interpretations in our Multicultural land. This paper aims to examine the Representation of acid attack survivors in Indian Cinema qualitatively with the help of case studies and Multimodal discourse analysis by interpreting with the Interactive and compositional meaning.

Unruly Cinema

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rini Battacharya Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Film Industry ◽  
First Century ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hindi Cinema ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Systematic Exposition

Unruly Cinema is a meta-history of Indian cinema’s emergence and growth in correspondence with the colonial, postcolonial, and the neoliberal state. Indian popular cinema has grown steadily from the largest national film industry to a global cultural force. Between 1931 and 2000, Indian cinema overcame Hollywood’s domination of the Indian market, crafted a postcolonial national aesthetic, resisted the high modernist pull of art cinema, and eventually emerged as a seamless extension of India’s neoliberal ambitions. The major agent of these four shifts was a section of the Hindi cinema produced in Bombay, which came to be named and marketed as Bollywood in the twenty-first century. Through a systematic exposition of four historical periods, this book shows how Bollywood’s current dominance is an unlikely result of unruliness, that is, of a disorganized defiance of norms. Perpetually caught between an apathetic and adversarial government and an undefined public, Indian commercial cinema has thrived simply by defying control or normalization. The aesthetic turns of this cinema are guided by counter-effects, often unintended and always unruly.

scholarly journals “Cultured Women” do not act in films: Tracing Notions of Female Stardom in Bombay Cinema (1930s–1950s)

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050012
Author(s):  
PRIYAM SINHA
Keyword(s):  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Bombay City ◽  
Film Making ◽  
Ideological Construction

Women were absent from the archives and rendered as invisible within the film business that was changing the urban landscape of Bombay city in the 1930s through talkies. Questions were raised about female sexuality and respectability primarily due to a morality discourse closely associated with women acting in films. Tension, moral panic and distress had emerged from the dominant stigma regarding films making industries being a heterosexual and hybrid workspace. Moreover, an economy that capitalizes on voyeuristic pleasures of its male audience by objectifying women’s bodies. So, even though it offered women higher salaries unlike other professions, it was deemed as “dangerous” for women. Therefore, “cultured women”, essentially from the upper class, were discouraged from being a part of the studio film industry situated in the cosmopolitan Bombay city. Taking forward Neepa Majumdar’s (2009) dialogue on the denial of agency to women in Indian cinema, this paper traces the incorporation of feminist agenda into film making. This paper is limited to studying the biographical, autobiographical details and picturization of three eminent actresses: Nargis, Kanan Devi and Durga Khote. Further, I would elaborate on the struggles undertaken by them and the roles they played in films in order to deconstruct the notion of female stardom and an “ideal Indian woman” picturized in Bollywood from the 1930s–1950s. This period holds relevance in film historiography due to the ideological construction of female stardom that had its pros and cons which I would be discussing in depth through the paper.

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (TGST): Diaspora

SIASAT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Shiva Zaheri Birgani ◽  
Maryam Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Small Things ◽  
Made In

This paper attempts to analyze the mentioned novel based on postcolonial studies in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.  The concepts that can be mentioned in this novel are history, diaspora, hybridity, the role of women in Indian society, globalization, resistance and orientalism. These concepts are used from postcolonial theorists, Homi K. Bhabha . Colonization is a period of time. This is history itself. In developing the dominance of colonization, writers played a main role. Knowledge and power are the dominating themes that over-rule the deep nature of imperialism and literature. These themes indicate the superior literature, culture and tradition as the standard form of acceptance. Colonization is a period of time. This is history itself. In the result of the colonization, the migration and transition were not avoidable issues. Therefore, in this displacement, the new identity has been made. People’s customs, cultures and beliefs are mixed with colonizers’ unconsciously. India is a multicultural country. There are many various cultures in this country. And also during the colonization and the dominance of Britain over India, the changes were made in its customs and cultures. Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and female activist.

scholarly journals Education of Bhagavat Gita’s Philosophy, Spiritualism and Ethics and Their Role in Stress Management in Corporate Sector involving Economic and Financial Resources

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Namrata Sharma ◽  
Ajit Behura ◽  
Kamal Nain Chopra
Keyword(s):  
Stress Management ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Good Environment ◽  
Made In ◽  
Broad Overview

<p><em>An attempt has been made in presenting a broad overview of Spiritualism and Ethics in Business and their Role in Stress Management of Managers in Corporate Sector, involving Economic and Financial Resources. Emphasis of the role of Bhagavat Gita and Christian Spirituality on stress management has been outlined. Ideas and statements of great Management Gurus in support of the use of Spiritualism and Ethics in Business, and their Role in Stress Management of Managers have been discussed. An expression has been suggested to relate spirituality factor of the manager and his stress. It is felt that the paper should be of good utility for the managers to reduce their stress level, and hence improve their performance, along with creating a good environment at the work place.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Reclaiming Subjectivities: A Psychoanalytic-Feminist Perspective on Item Songs in Contemporary Indian Cinema

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-100
Author(s):  
Syed Zulkifil Haider Shah ◽  
Elijah Cory
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Gender Performativity ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Indian Cinema ◽  
Objectification Of Women ◽  
Female Bodies

Item Songs have recently become established as new genre of songs in the mainstream Indian Cinema, although they have remained a part of Bollywood movies since at least the 1970s. Such songs, despite their widespread appeal to masses, have often been panned by Film critics (particularly from the Radical Feminist School) for their erotic dances, and an overly glamorized and sexualized depiction of half-nude female bodies. Based upon the textual analysis of two popular item songs in recent Indian cinema, Sheila ki Jawani from Tees Maar Khan (2010) and Munni Badnam Hui from Dabangg (2010), this paper seeks to problematize such readings which focus exclusively on the issue of the objectification of women through the concept of the male gaze. Drawing upon more recent studies in Psychoanalytic Feminist Scholarship, the paper departs from this conventional understanding. It argues that such item songs can also be interpreted as a means of liberation for women, and as devices for reclaiming the narrative on female sexuality, and a woman’s right to her body. More broadly, using Judith Butler’s concept of Gender Performativity in the Feminist Phenomenological tradition, the paper argues that items songs can be construed as performative acts that subvert the male gaze and viewed as constitutive of new feminine subjectivities in  the contemporary Indian society.

scholarly journals Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (TGST): Diaspora

SIASAT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Shiva Zaheri Birgani ◽  
Maryam Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Small Things ◽  
Made In

This paper attempts to analyze the mentioned novel based on postcolonial studies in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.  The concepts that can be mentioned in this novel are history, diaspora, hybridity, the role of women in Indian society, globalization, resistance and orientalism. These concepts are used from postcolonial theorists, Homi K. Bhabha . Colonization is a period of time. This is history itself. In developing the dominance of colonization, writers played a main role. Knowledge and power are the dominating themes that over-rule the deep nature of imperialism and literature. These themes indicate the superior literature, culture and tradition as the standard form of acceptance. Colonization is a period of time. This is history itself. In the result of the colonization, the migration and transition were not avoidable issues. Therefore, in this displacement, the new identity has been made. People’s customs, cultures and beliefs are mixed with colonizers’ unconsciously. India is a multicultural country. There are many various cultures in this country. And also during the colonization and the dominance of Britain over India, the changes were made in its customs and cultures. Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer and female activist.

ASPECTS IN BUILDING A COMPANY WEB-SITE AND ITS ROLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Petar Halachev ◽  
Victoria Radeva ◽  
Albena Nikiforova ◽  
Miglena Veneva
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The Internet ◽  
A Company ◽  
The Web ◽  
Design Construction ◽  
Made In ◽  
Site Types

This report is dedicated to the role of the web site as an important tool for presenting business on the Internet. Classification of site types has been made in terms of their application in the business and the types of structures in their construction. The Models of the Life Cycle for designing business websites are analyzed and are outlined their strengths and weaknesses. The stages in the design, construction, commissioning, and maintenance of a business website are distinguished and the activities and requirements of each stage are specified.

Aboutness

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Yablo
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Major Advance ◽  
Truth Conditions ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Made In

Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. However, it has played no real role in philosophical semantics, which is surprising. This is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens the role of subject matter in meaning. A long-standing tradition sees meaning as truth conditions, to be specified by listing the scenarios in which a sentence is true. Nothing is said about the principle of selection—about what in a scenario gets it onto the list. Subject matter is the missing link here. A sentence is true because of how matters stand where its subject matter is concerned. This book maintains that this is not just a feature of subject matter, but its essence. One indicates what a sentence is about by mapping out logical space according to its changing ways of being true or false. The notion of content that results—directed content—is brought to bear on a range of philosophical topics, including ontology, verisimilitude, knowledge, loose talk, assertive content, and philosophical methodology. The book represents a major advance in semantics and the philosophy of language.

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