Lecture

Priyadarshini Shanker (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

This talk intervenes in three prevailing frameworks of Indian film and media studies – auteurist approaches, history of film movements, and digital media studies – through three case studies that centralize the optics of feminist performances. Shanker proposes corporeal intervention that potentially recasts the historiography of Indian cinema as a network of gender, performance, labor, and mobility. The aspiration is to move away from ideological readings of Indian cinema to push for a history and theorization of gendered performance.