Gender, Cinema, Streaming Platforms

Dr. Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis teaches at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Her research interests include gender, caste, media representations and subaltern literature. Her academic articles and book chapters have been published by reputed international publishers. She is also a creative writer and translator. Her translated stories have been published by Orient Blackswan and Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.Dr. Šarūnas Paunksnis teaches at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. His research interests include politics, new media, Indian cinema, science and technology studies and postcolonial theory. He is author of Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India (2019) and the editor of Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance (2016).

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Biopolitics of Hindutva: Masculinity and Violence in Leila and Aashram.- Chapter 3. Questioning the “Great” in “The Great Indian Wedding”: Streaming Feminism through Band Baaja Baaraat and Made in Heaven.- Chapter 4.Questioning the “Great” in “The Great Indian Wedding”: Streaming Feminism through Band Baaja Baaraat and Made in Heaven.- Chapter 5. Lust Stories and the Politics of Private Viewing on SVOD Platforms.- Chapter 6. New Feminist Visibilities and Sisterhood: Re-interpreting Marriage, Desire, and Self-fulfilment in Mainstream Hindi Cinema.- Chapter 7. Gaze Averted: Interrogating the Portrayal of Menstruation in Hindi Cinema.- Chapter 8. Gender and Nationalism: The Journey of Sehmat in Meghna Gulzar’s Raazi.- Chapter 9.India’s Daughter: The Banality of Rape.- Chapter 10. The Deeply Personal Is Deeply Political: New Voices in Women’s Documentary Practice in Indian Subcontinent.- Chapter 11. On Cinematic Transformation, Gender and Religion.An Interview with Ashish Avikunthak.