Women's Transborder Cinema

Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia

Esha Niyogi De

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University of Illinois Press
10 December 2024

Film movie production: technical skills; Asian history; Feminism & feminist theory; Industrial relations & safety

Series: Women’s Media History Now!

Can we write women’s authorial roles into the history of industrial cinema in South Asia? How can we understand women’s creative authority and access to the film business infrastructure in this postcolonial region? Esha Niyogi De draws on rare archival and oral sources to explore these questions from a uniquely comparative perspective, delving into examples of women holding influential positions as stars, directors, and producers across the film industries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

De uses film tropes to examine the ways women directors and film entrepreneurs claim creative control within the contexts of anti-colonial nationalism and global capitalism. The region’s fictional cinemas have become staging grounds for postcolonialism, with colonial and local hierarchies merged into new imperial formations. De’s analysis shows how the gendered intersections of inequity and opportunity shape women’s fiction filmmaking while illuminating the impact of state and market formations on the process.

Innovative and essential, Women’s Transborder Cinema examines the works of South Asia’s women filmmakers from a regional perspective.

By: Esha Niyogi De
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9780252088285
ISBN 10: 025208828X
Series: Women’s Media History Now!
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Esha Niyogi De is a senior lecturer in the Writings Programs division at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the coeditor of South Asian Filmscapes: Transregional Encounters and author of Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman: A Feminist Critique of Postcolonial Thought.