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Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By: Pavitra Sundar

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Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By: Pavitra Sundar

Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed disciplinary formations, the book takes seriously the radical theoretical and methodological potential of listening. It models a feminist interpretive practice that is not just attuned to how power and privilege are materialized in sound, but that engenders new, counter-hegemonic imaginaries. Focusing on mainstream Bombay cinema, Sundar identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form. Charting new paths through seven decades of film, media, and cultural history, Sundar identifies key shifts in women’s playback voices and the Islamicate genre of the qawwali. She also conceptualizes spoken language as sound, and turns up the volume on a capacious, multilingual politics of belonging that scholarly and popular accounts of nation typically render silent. All in all, Listening with a Feminist Ear offers a critical sonic sensibility that reinvigorates debates about the gendering of voice and body in cinema, and the role of sound and media in conjuring community.

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River, Laughter, Moon & C

By: Pavitra Menon

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River, Laughter, Moon & C

By: Pavitra Menon

The year is 1857 in the sprightly seaside town of Calicut. Four have been chosen by supernaturals of the past. They battle the East India Company’s ambitious railways, for hidden beneath the plains of Northern India is a relic so sacred, it has been guarded fiercely over millennia. Polio cannot dampen Sarah’s spirit, skin colour makes no difference to Charlotte, Chandran is an unflinching patriot and Colin will be redeemed by a second chance. River, Laughter, Moon & C, where time surrenders to friendship and courage……

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Notion Press

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1684663849

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Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By: Pavitra Sundar

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Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By: Pavitra Sundar

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University of Michigan Press

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0472903667

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Listening with a Feminist Ear

Listening with a Feminist Ear

River, Laughter, Moon & C

River, Laughter, Moon & C

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Listening with a Feminist Ear

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