Northwest Research Media Commons Presents
Dr. Sangita Gopal
Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, University of Oregon
“Lethal Acts: Bollywood’s New Woman and the Nirbhaya Effect.”
April 9, 3:30pm
Zoom link: https://seattleu.zoom.us/j/9952070475
Meeting ID: 995 207 0475
Abstract
"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 responded to these social forces.
Dr. 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 Intermediate 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 Mix 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.