Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema
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2011
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-74759-3 (ISBN)
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
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An examination of the censorship of gender and heterosexuality—particularly female heterosexuality—in Bombay cinema.
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring.
Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.
India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexuality in Bombay cinema. She studies how film censorship on various levels makes the female body and female sexuality pivotal in constructing national identity, not just through the films themselves but also through the heated debates that occur in newspapers and other periodicals. The standard claim is that the state dictates censorship and various prohibitions, but Mehta explores how relationships among the state, the film industry, and the public illuminate censorship's role in identity formation, while also examining how desire, profits, and corruption are generated through the act of censoring.
Committed to extending a feminist critique of mass culture in the global south, Mehta situates the story of censorship in a broad social context and traces the intriguing ways in which the heated debates on sexuality in Bombay cinema actually produce the very forms of sexuality they claim to regulate. She imagines afresh the theoretical field of censorship by combining textual analysis, archival research, and qualitative fieldwork. Her analysis reveals how central concepts of film studies, such as stardom, spectacle, genre, and sound, are employed and (re)configured within the ambit of state censorship, thereby expanding the scope of their application and impact.
Monika Mehta is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, SUNY.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Beginning
Chapter 2. Revisiting the History of Film Censorship
Chapter 3. Close-Up: The Central Board of Film Certification
Chapter 4. The First Sex-Education Film: A Classification Conundrum
Chapter 5. Satyam shivam sundaram: (Im)proper Suturing of Sound, Scar, and Stardom
Chapter 6. An Anomalous Dilemma: To Ban or to Certify the Self-Sacrificial Wife in Pati parmeshwar
Chapter 7. Tracking the Twists and Turns in the Khalnayak Debates on Censorship
Chapter 8. Dilwale dulhania le jayenge: Certifying a "Family Love" Story
Chapter 9. From Censorship to Selections
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2012 |
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Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-292-74759-4 / 0292747594 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-74759-3 / 9780292747593 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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