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Class Citations: SHIFTING REPRESENTATIONS OF THE WITCH IN HINDI HORROR CINEMA: FROM SEXPLOITATION TO SOCIAL JUSTICE

Thank you to everyone who attended the Miskatonic Online December 2022 class. For those who could not attend, you can still rent the lecture on our VOD channel until January. Please find below instructor Saira Chhibber’s bibliography and filmography from the lecture.

Works Cited

Chatterji, Shoma A. Subject Cinema, Object Woman: A Study of the portrayal of women in Indian Cinema. Calcutta: Parumita Publications, 1998.

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Dimitrova, Diana, “Religion and Gender in Bollywood Film” in Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia. ed. Diana Dimitrova. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Gangar, Amrit. “Damaged Goods! Managed Gods! Indian Cinema’s Virtuous Hierarchies” in Unveiling Desire: Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East. eds. Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Govindan, Padma and Dutta, Bisakha. “From Villain to Traditional Housewife! The Politics of Globalization and Women’s Sexuality in the ‘New’ Indian Media” in Global Bollywood ed. Anandam P. Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar. New York: New York University Press, 2008.

Kasbekar, Asha. “Hidden Pleasures: Negotiating the Myth of the Female Ideal in Popular Hindi Cinema” in Pleasure And The Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India. Eds. Rachel Dwyer and Christopher Pinney. London: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Mankekar, Purnima. Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

Mubarki, Meraj Ahmed. Filming Horror : Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies. New Delhi ;: SAGE Publications, 2016. 

 Sen, Meheli. Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2017.

Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Virdi, Jyotika. “Reverence, Rape – and Then Revenge: Popular Hindi Cinema’s ‘woman’s Film’.” Screen (London) 40.1 (1999): 17–37. 

Films Cited

Chudail No.1 (dir. R. Kumar, 1997)

Roohi (dir. Hardik Mehta, 2021)

Stree (dir. Amar Kaushik, 2018)

Veerana (dirs. Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay, 1988)