Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema by Sundar, Pavitra

Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in...
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Author: Pavitra Sundar
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Language: English
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Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema by Sundar, Pavitra

Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

¥12,138

Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

¥12,138
Author: Pavitra Sundar
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Pavitra Sundar
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 08/14/2023
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780472039371

About the Author
Pavitra Sundar is Associate Professor of Literature at Hamilton College.


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