Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1 Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies
Part I Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres
2 'Love You Zindagi': Gauri Shinde's Celebration of Women and Life on Screen
3 Zoya Akhtar: Global Genres and Gendered Signatures
4 Revisioning Family Drama: The Global Spaces of Romance and Science Fiction in Honey Irani's Stories
5 Women (Not) Telling Women's Stories: Tanuja Chandra's Directorial Journey from Action-Thriller to Romance and Beyond
6 Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise
7 Farah Khan: Cinephilia, Nostalgia and Melancholia
8 Guneet Monga: Gender, Labour and the "Disrupter" Indie Film Producer
Part II The Transnational and Postcolonial Turns
9 Roots and Routes: Home and the World in Sooni Taraporevala's Transnational Storytelling
10 Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle
Part III Gender, Sexuality, Subversions
11 Figurations of Fallible Women: The Art and Act of Writing by Juhi Chaturvedi
12 Queer Counter-narratives, Feminist Authorship, and the Inclusive Storytelling of Gazal Dhaliwal
13 "Rosy Ki Khwaheeshein" Scripted Romance and Acquaintance Rape in Alankrita Shrivastava's Oeuvre of Female Desire
14 Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyer's Writings
Part IV Spatio-Temporal Specificities
15 Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehta's Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi
16 Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's Nil Battey Sannata