Cinema and Communication : Negotiating Female Stereotypes
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
Communication is and has ever been an indispensable and inevitable process. It keeps flowing incessantly through multiple means and modes. In the earlier times, conveying and passing messages was sufficient for the humans, but conveying the message with the utmost impact and emphasis has turned out to be the most coveted thing today. Cinema is one of such media that thrive on the idea of an effectively powerful delivery of the message and of generating an expected reaction or response from the audience. Cinema has been a powerful medium and played a major role in establishing, and representing a strong image or message dealing with something or someone. With the aid of certain diction, dramatic techniques, costumes etc. the content is created and delivered to its audience. The proposed paper aims to underline the power of media as one of the communication modes, to highlight how cinematic representation of Indian females brought up in London put them in the fetters of stereotyping. It will highlight how the male counterparts in the Bollywood movies represent a reformer, remedy, a preacher and a guide to the heroines who are incapable of taking right decisions and of intelligent thoughts.
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Dr. Eti Sharma
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