Listening with a feminist ear : soundwork in Bombay cinema / Pavitra Sundar.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sundar, Pavitra, author.

Contributor:

• Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motion pictures--Social aspects--India--Mumbai.
• Voice in motion pictures.
• Sound in motion pictures.
• Feminism and motion pictures--India--Mumbai.
• Listening--Social aspects.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.

Summary:

Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed disciplinary formations, the book takes seriously the radical theoretical and methodological potential of listening. It models a feminist interpretive practice that is not just attuned to how power and privilege are materialized in sound, but that engenders new, counter-hegemonic imaginaries. Focusing on mainstream Bombay cinema, Sundar identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form. Charting new paths through seven decades of film, media, and cultural history, Sundar identifies key shifts in women's playback voices and the Islamicate genre of the qawwali. She also conceptualizes spoken language as sound, and turns up the volume on a capacious, multilingual politics of belonging that scholarly and popular accounts of nation typically render silent. All in all, Listening with a Feminist Ear offers a critical sonic sensibility that reinvigorates debates about the gendering of voice and body in cinema, and the role of sound and media in conjuring community.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.
• Description based on information from the publisher.

Has Supplement:

Supplement (work): Sundar, Pavitra, Listening with a feminist ear : soundwork in Bombay cinema 10 online resources (ten external links to YouTube videos. The videos will not be hosted on Fulcrum)

ISBN:

• 9780472903665
• 0472903667

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access