Cinematic categorization of gender identities from the gaze of sociological imagination

Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 7

Abstract

Cinema has been a popular source of entertainment with primarily domesticated closures. This paper is an attempt to show, how Hindi cinematic projections, become a social fact and start exercising constraint on the audience to construct their everyday lives as per the projected and stereotypical categorizations of femininity and masculinity.

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Dr. Shilpa Khatri Babbar

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  • EP ID EP419542
  • DOI 10.9790/0837-2307052025.
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Dr. Shilpa Khatri Babbar (2018). Cinematic categorization of gender identities from the gaze of sociological imagination. IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 23(7), 20-25. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-419542