§16§§This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry. It derives from the major theories of modernity, postmodern feminism, semiotics, cultural production, and gender performativity in globalized times. The collection transcends the traditional approaches of looking at films made by women filmmakers as 'feminist' cinema, and focuses on an extraordinary group of women filmmakers like Ashwini Iyer Tiwari, Bhavani Iyer, Farah Khan, Mira Nair Vijaya Mehta, and Zoya Akthar. The volume will be of interest to academics and theorists of gender and Hindi cinema, as well as anybody interested in contemporary Hindi films in their various manifestations.§ §04§1 Introduction: Wonder Women, Iron Ladies§Part I Auteurial Voices, Bollywood Glamor, Multiple Genres§§2 'Love You Zindagi': Gauri Shinde's Celebration of Women and Life on Screen§§3 Zoya Akhtar: Global Genres and Gendered Signatures§4 Revisioning Family Drama: The Global Spaces of Romance and Science Fiction in Honey Irani's Stories §§§5 Women (Not) Telling Women's Stories: Tanuja Chandra's Directorial Journey from Action-Thriller to Romance and Beyond§§6 Reema Kagti and the Ethics of Surprise§§7 Farah Khan: Cinephilia, Nostalgia and Melancholia§§8 Guneet Monga: Gender, Labour and the "Disrupter" Indie Film Producer§§Part II The Transnational and Postcolonial Turns§§9 Roots and Routes: Home and the World in Sooni Taraporevala's Transnational Storytelling§§10 Mira Nair and the Cinema of Postcolonial Spectacle§§Part III Gender, Sexuality, Subversions§11 Figurations of Fallible Women: The Art and Act of Writing b §04§y Juhi Chaturvedi§§§12 Queer Counter-narratives, Feminist Authorship, and the Inclusive Storytelling of Gazal Dhaliwal§§13 "Rosy Ki Khwaheeshein": Scripted Romance and Acquaintance Rape in Alankrita Shrivastava's Oeuvre of Female Desire§§14 Women at a Distance: Gender Politics and the Past in Bhavani Iyer's Writings§Part IV Spatio-Temporal Specificities§§§15 Marginalizations and Repressions in Vijaya Mehta's Pestonjee and Hamidabai ki Kothi§§16 Reconstructing Motherhood in Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari's Nil Battey Sannata§ §02§§Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor, Dept of HSS, IIT Madras, India. Her edited anthologies comprise Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times (2020), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors (2017) and Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Global Reception 〓 §02§§Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan is Professor, Dept of HSS, IIT Madras, India. She works in the areas of Film Studies, Popular Culture and American Literature. Her edited anthologies comprise: Stardom in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Celebrity and Fame in Globalized Times (2020), Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors (2017) and Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Global Reception 〓
