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MELODRAMA & THE NATION:
SEXUAL ECONOMIES OF BOMBAY CINEMA 1970-2000
Karen Gabriel
Rs.595 Hb 2010
81-88965-49-9
(All rights available)
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This insightful analysis of popular Bombay cinema presents a comprehensive discussion of its contemporary history, background, financing and social and political underpinnings. It maps the cultural landscape of this medium, tracing the relationship between the state, nation, cinema and society. It reviews the ways in which gender and sexuality are articulated in their cinematic organisation and representation, and demonstrates how heterosexuality operates as a stabiliser within this constellation. More generally, it looks at the emergence of heroes and anti-heroes, at the changing faces of masculinity, at femininity and the regulation of desire, and at Bollywood’s construction of gender, sexuality and the nation. |
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KAREN GABRIEL
is associate professor in the department of English, St Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She has written extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, nation and representation. |
| ...a well-researched and scholarly rendition of the analysis of cinematic discourses and sexual economies in mainstream cinema. A great read for research scholars of commercial cinema |
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—The Tribune
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| ... break[s] fresh ground both in providing a wider context for film criticism and giving a new perspective to social relations in general and gender relations in particular |
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—The Book Review
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