‘Breaking’ the Silence and ‘Fighting’ Back: Changing Representations of Female Response to Gender-Based Violence in Select Malayalam Films
By: N Parvathy and Priyanka Tripathi
References
- Abu, A. (2012). 22 Female Kottayam. India: Film Brewery.
- Basu, A., & Tripathi, P. (2022). Comprehending the bleeding body: Epistemological violence and (un)tabooing menstruation in selective media texts in India. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 24(6), 1–14. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol24/iss6/18.
- Chatterji, S. A. (1998). Subject cinema, object women: A study of the portrayal of women in Indian cinema. Parumita Publications.
- Cockburn, C., & Enloe, C. (2012). Militarism, patriarchy and peace movements. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14(4), 550–557. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2012.726098
- D’Amore, L. M. (2017). Vigilante feminism: Revising trauma, abduction, and assault in American fairy-tale revisions. Marvels & Tales, 31(2), 386–405. https://doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.31.2.0386
- Das, V. (2022). Jaya Jaya Jaya Jaya Hey. India: Cheers Entertainments.
- De Welde, K. (2012). Kick-ass feminism: Violence, resistance, and feminist avengers in Larsson’s trilogy. In D. King & C. L. Smith (Eds.), Men who hate women and women who kick their asses: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy in feminist perspective (pp. 15–26). Vanderbilt University Press.
- Devika, J. (2019). Women’s labour, patriarchy and feminism in twenty-first century Kerala: Reflections on the glocal present. Review of Development and Change, 24(1), 79–99. https://doi.org/10.1177/09722661198459
- Fathima, A., & Dharmadhikari, S. (2022, May). Kiran knew Vismaya was suicidal, still harassed her: What the judgment says. The News Minute. https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/kiran-knew-vismaya-was-suicidal-stillharassed-her-what-judgment-says-164361.
- Gallagher, M. (1997). Masculinity in transition: Jackie Chan’s transcultural star text. Velvet Light Trap, 39(23), 23–40.
- Gopalan, L. (2002). Cinema of interruptions: Action genres in contemporary Indian cinema. British Film Institute.
- Grilo, A., & James, T. (2010, July). Why we didn’t like the Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce. The Book Smuggler. https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/2010/07/book-discussion-why-we-didnt-like-sisters-red-by-jackson-pearce.html.
- Gupta-Cassale, N. (2000). Bearing witness: Rape, female resistance, male authority and the problems of gender representation in popular Indian cinema. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 7(2), 231–248. https://doi.org/10.1177/09715215000070020
- Hamza, A. (2021). Bheemante Vazhi [Bheeman’s path]. India: Chembosky Motion Pictures.
- Heller-Nicholas, A. (2021). Rape-revenge films: A critical study. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers.
- Herget, A.-K. (2021). On music’s potential to convey meaning in film: A systematic review of empirical evidence. Psychology of Music, 49(1), 21–49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735619835019
- Issac, J. (2023). Rekha. India: Stone Bench Films.
- John, M. (2020). Feminism, sexual violence and the times of #MeToo in India. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 26(2), 137–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2020.1748259
- Joseph, B. (2017). Godha [Arena]. India: AVA Productions and E4 Entertainment.
- Joshi, N. (2020). Polarities in gender representation-Kabir Singh and “Thappad.” Global Media Journal: Indian Edition, 12(1), 1–15. https://gmj.manipal.edu/issues/june2020/9%20Polarities%20in%20Gender%20Representation.pdf.
- Kim, E. L. (2019). Her own hero: The origins of the women’s self-defence movement. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 25(1), 155–158. https://doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2018.1564454
- Krishnan, P. (2010). In the idiom of loss: Ideology of motherhood in television serials “Mahabharata” and “Ramayana.” In M. Krishnaraj (Ed.), Motherhood in India: Glorification without Empowerment? (pp. 106–158). Routledge.
- Kumar, P. (2015). Hegemonic masculinities in two comic films in Malayalam: Meesa Madhavan e Rajamanikyam. ArtCultura, 17(30), 31–42.
- Lauret, M. (1991). Feminism and culture—the movie: A critical overview of writing on women and cinema. Women: A Cultural Review, 2(1), 52–69. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574049108578061
- Levy, B. (2008). Women and violence. Seal Studies.
- Mathur, K. (2008). Body as space, body as site: Bodily integrity and women’s empowerment in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 43(17), 54–63. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277391.
- Menon, N. (2006). Embodying the self: Feminism, sexual violence and the law. In P. Chatterjee & P. Jeganathan (Eds.), Subaltern studies XI: Community, gender, and violence (pp. 66–105). Columbia UP.
- Menon, R. K. (2009). Intimate terrors: changing representations of structural violence against women in Malayali cinema. Studies in South Asian Film and Media, 1(2), 285–301. https://doi.org/10.1386/safm.1.2.285/1
- Menon, N. (2024, January). 22 Female Kottayam to Aattam: The evolution of sexual violence in Malayalam cinema. The News Minute. https://www.thenewsminute.com/flix/22-female-kottayam-to-aattam-the-evolution-of-sexual-violence-in-malayalam-cinema.
- Montesanti, S. R. (2015). The role of structural and interpersonal violence in the lives of women: A conceptual shift in prevention of gender-based violence. BMC Women’s Health, 15(93), 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-015-0247-5
- Mukherjee, S. (2005). Feminism in a Calcutta context: Assault, appeasement, and assertion in Rituparno Ghosh’s “Dahan.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 22(3), 203–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509200490474302
- Priyadarshan. (1986). Rakkuyilin Ragasadassil. India: Sooryodaya Creations.
- Rajendran, A. (2014). You are woman: Arguments with normative femininities in recent Malayalam cinema. Economic and Political Weekly, 49(17), 61–69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24480121.
- Ray, S. (2018). “Her own hero: The origins of the women’s self-defence movement” by Wendy L. Rouse. Sociological Bulletin, 67(3), 367–369. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26625712.
- Sen, A., Kaur, R., & Zabiliūtė, E. (2019). (En)countering sexual violence in the Indian city. Gender, Place & Culture, 27(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.161285
- Sharma, N. & Tripathi, P. (2023). From Orthodoxy to the universal logic of human rights: A case study of film Thappad (The Slap). Gender Studies, 22(1) 126–143. https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2023-0038
- Shohat, E. & Stam, R. (1996). From the imperial family to the transnational imaginary: media spectatorship in the age of globalisation. In R. Wilson and W. Dissanayake (Eds.), Global/Local: Cultural production and the transnational imaginary (pp. 145–73). Duke University Press.
- Sreedharan, J. (2010). Marriage and family in Malayalam cinema. In M. T. Pillai (Ed.), Women in Malayalam cinema: Naturalising gender hierarchies (pp. 91–118). Orient Blackswan.
- Sreekumar, R., & Raj, S.J. (2022). Tit for tat: Avenging women and self-fashioning femininity in Malayalam cinema. In S. Delahousse et al. (Eds.), Transnational crime cinema (pp. 107–122). Edinburgh University Press.
- Subrahmanian, M. (2019). Autonomous women’s movement in Kerala: Historiography. Journal of International Women’s Studies, 20(2), 1–10. https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss2/1.
- Tasker, Y. (2013). Spectacular bodies: Gender, genre and the action cinema. Routledge.
- Thomson, I. (2014). Responsible social accounting communities, symbolic activism and the reframing of social accounting. A commentary on new accounts: Towards a reframing of social accounting. Accounting Forum, 38(4), 274–277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2014.05.002
- Valenti, J. (2007). Full frontal feminism: A young woman’s guide to why feminism matters. Seal Press.
- Vivek. (2022). The Teacher. India: Nutmeg Productions and VTV Films.
- Walker, W. (2001). Why I fight back. In B. Findlen (Ed.), Listen up: Voices from the next feminist generation (pp. 126–132). Seal Press.
- Woollacott, J. (2005). Messages and meanings. In M. Gurevitch et al. (Eds.), Culture, society and the media (pp. 87–110). Routledge.
Language: English
Page range: 120 - 139
Published on: Dec 20, 2024
Published by: West University of Timisoara
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Related subjects:
© 2024 N Parvathy, Priyanka Tripathi, published by West University of Timisoara
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.