Talk by Sangita Gopal: Lethal Acts: Bollywood's New Woman and the Nirbhaya Effect

Location: 
Zoom
Date: 
Apr 9, 2021, 3:30 pm

"NIRBHAYA BY SREYS SINGH'

"Lethal Acts: Bollywood's New Woman and the Nirbhaya Effect"

A Talk by Sangita Gopal, University of Oregon
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies

April 9, 2021 • 3:30 pm (PST) • Zoom

Presented by Northwest Commons: Conversations in Research

"Lethal Acts" explores the emergence of the violent femme and the femme fatale within the generic framework of the "new woman" in Bollywood cinema. I suggest that we view the action genre as a response to and processing of certain socio-historical transformations especially as they pertain to the gendered effects of neo-liberal globalization, increased violence against women, escalating rape culture as well as the new frameworks for (post) feminist activism that responds to these social forces.

Sangita Gopal is associate professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon. She is author of Conjugations: Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2011) and coeditor of Intermedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen (Routledge, 2012), and of Global Bollywood:  Travels of Hindi Film Music (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book on feminist mediawork in India in the 1970s entitled Mixed Media: A History of Women's Filmmaking in India and a monograph on the careers of Ivory, Merchant and Jhabvala entitled Transnational Film Production and the Social Network. Her more recent publications have been in venues such as Feminist Media Histories, Cultural Critique, Cinema Journal and New Literary History. 

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"Lethal Acts: Bollywood's New Woman and the Nirbhaya Effect" presented by Sangita Gopal

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