'Bad' Women of Bombay Films Studies in Desire and Anxiety /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sengupta, Saswati (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Roy, Shampa (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Purkayastha, Sharmila (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-Asia.; Culture.; Gender.; Motion pictures.; Ethnology-Asia.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Culture and Gender.; Global Cinema and TV.; Asian Culture.; Global/International Culture.

This book presents a feminist mapping of the articulation and suppression of female desire in Hindi films, which comprise one of modern India's most popular cultural narratives. It explores the lineament of evil and the corresponding closure of chastisement or domesticity that appear as necessa...