This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry. It derives from the major theories of modernity, postmodern feminism, semiotics, cultural production, and gender performativity in globalized times. The uniqueness of this collection is that it transcends traditional approaches of looking at films made by women filmmakers as ‘feminist’ cinema. These scholarly writings by eminent film theorists and critics focus on an extraordinary group of women filmmakers who have redefined Hindi cinema. They include Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, Bhavani Iyer, Farah Khan, Gazal Dhaliwal, Gauri Shinde, Honey Irani, Juhi Chaturvedi, Guneet Monga, Mira Nair, Reema Kagti, Sooni Taraporevala, Tanuja Chandra, Vijaya Mehta, and Zoya Akthar. Although the volume is aimed at those doing academic and theoretical readings of gender and Hindi cinema, it will also benefit those who are interested in contemporary Hindi films in its various manifestations.weiterlesen