Special Issue: Hindutva Politics and South Asian Cinema

Aims & Scope

Studies in South Asian Film & Media hopes to build a space for critical media theory and practice, engage scholars, activists and media practitioners in dialogue, clarify the relationship between culture and politics, and highlight South Asia as a vantage point from where the contemporary integration of the globe may be understood. Analytical and theoretical perspectives that are critical, interdisciplinary and global, and which combine an awareness of of aesthetics with insights from the humanities and social sciences to explain how subjectivities and publics are produced in specific historical contexts, are especially welcome.

Issue 9.2

Editorial

Hindutva politics and South Asian cinema – media in the age of
Modi Ajay Gehlawat

Articles

Soch Aur Shauch: Reading Brahminism and patriarchy in Toilet: Ek Prem Katha
Pallavi Rao

The gaze of the raping Muslim man: Love Jihad and Hindu right-wing rhetoric in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat
Krupa Shandilya

‘Chariot of Fire’: Genre slippages, iconographic agitation and ideological subversion in SRK’s Raees
Omar Ahmed

Reading double: Queer girls and Hindutva politics in The World Before Her
Anandi Rao

‘PK Hamara Hai’: Hindi cinema and the defense of dharm in media counterpublics
Claire C. Robison

Triumph of the Rajput: Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the fascist aesthetics of Padmaavat Ajay Gehlawat

Interview with Lalit Vachani
Leela Khanna

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