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Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (Paperback)
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Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (Paperback)
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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.
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