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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—India [Browse]
• Dalits in motion pictures [Browse]
• Caste in motion pictures [Browse]

Editor

• Abraham, Joshil K. [Browse]
• Misrahi-Barak, Judith [Browse]

Summary note

This companion is the first study of caste and its representation in Indian cinema. It unravels the multiple layers of caste that feature directly and indirectly in Indian movies, not only to examine the many ways caste pervades Indian society and culture but also how the struggle against it adopts multiple strategies.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgmentsShifting the GazeIntroductionJoshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-BarakFrom Spectatorship to Agency1. Dalit Representation in Hindi CinemaHarish S. Wankhede 2. To Kill or To Allow to Live: Caste Necropolitics, Ozhivudivasathe Kali, and Malayalam CinemaRajesh James, Binu K. D., & Aswin Prasanth3. The Oppositional Bahujan AgencyJyoti Nisha4. Magizhchi! 'The Casteless Collective' and the Sensorial ExscriptionDickens Leonard and Manju EdachiraMaking the Invisible Visible5. Historiography and Historiophoty in Anubhav Sinha's Article 15Debjani Banerjee6. Arakshan and Article 15: Is there any Transformation in the 'Brahminical Gaze'?Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis 7. Visualising the Invisible: Decoding Caste Pride and the Casteist Slur in Bollywood FilmsSumit RajakThe Bigger Picture8. Over-the-top: Online Media, Chromatics, and the Transnational Travels of CastePurnima Mankekar and Sucharita Kanjilal9. Indian Cinema, Hunger, and Food: Family, Class, and CasteSwarnavel EswaranCaste and Gender 10. Re-cast(e)ing the New Woman: Caste and Gender in Contemporary Indian CinemaMegha Anwer and Anupama Arora11. The Construction and Representation of Lower Caste Women in Bollywood FilmsFarhana Naaz12. P. K. Rosy and Devaki Bai: Cast(e)ing the Malayalam Silent Film ActressesGeetha13. Examining the Domain of Caste, Gender, and Sexuality through Select Films of Jayan K. CherianVed PrakashCaste on Trial14. Dalit Subjectivity, Democracy, and Radical Equality or, What Bollywood Could Learn from AmbedkarChinmaya Lal Thakur15. The Constitution of/and Caste: Portrayal of Caste and Legal Justice in Three Contemporary Indian Films by Savarna FilmmakersRituparna Sengupta16. Beyond Violence and Non-violence: A Study of Dalit Resistance and Accommodation in Cinematic Popular JusticeRam Kumar ThakurThe Entanglements of Caste and Nature17. The Caste of Nature: Wholesome Bodies and Parasites in Bimal Roy's Sujata and Gogu Shyamala's 'A Beauteous Light'Nicole Thiara18. The Pig, the Black Sparrow, and the Sheep: Human-Animal Entanglements in Fandry and KhwadaShalmali Jadhav19. Landless, Homeless, and Nameless: Locating Caste in the Environmental In/Justice in PerariyathavarP. Rajitha VenugopalNot Two but Three States20. Framing Local Legends and the Caste Matrix in the Tamil Cinema of the late 1980sStalin Rajangam and P. Aadhavan21. The Alienation of the Other: Examining Marginal Narratives in Select Punjabi Films Amandeep Kaur & Sahil Sharma22. Caste, Voyeurism and Kannada New Wave CinemaMahima Raj C.From Closer Up23. Exploring Caste on Screen and Beyond: A Study of Chomana DudiJaishree Kapur24. Screening Caste: 'Untouchable' Body, Labour and Remuneration in LagaanPurnachandra Naik 25. The Untouchable Rajputs of Padmaavat and Beyond: A Cas(t)e StudyTanya Singh26. Masaan, a Tale of Forbidden LoveRavinder Singh Rana27. Beyond Narratives of Modernity, Pain and Pathos: Dalit Aesthetic in Kabali and KaalaReju George Mathew28. 'Ella Manusanum inga onnu illa': Imag(in)ing the Claustrophobia of Caste in Pariyerum PerumalB. Geetha29. Caste, Coast, and Christianity in Kerala: Analysing the Visual Representation of Latin Catholics in Ee.Ma.Yau. Grace Mariam Raju FilmographySelect BibliographyIndex.

ISBN

• 1-00-334357-0
• 1-003-34357-0
• 1-000-78616-1

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