TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tanmoy Kundu
AU  - Saikat Sarkar
AU  - Sangita Konar
PY  - 2026
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Disruptive Frames in the Post Colony
T2  - Locating South Asian Cinema Beyond Global Cosmopolitanism
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1611906
N2  - Disruptive Frames in the Postcolony is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring contemporary South Asian cinema through postcolonial, feminist, caste, trauma, and cultural studies perspectives. Examining mainstream, regional, and independent films, the volume analyses how cinema becomes a site of resistance, negotiation, and ideological contestation in the postcolony. The essays engage with themes of marginality, nationalism, masculinity, femininity, violence, memory, and belonging while interrogating structures of power and exclusion. The collection foregrounds feminist readings of Indian science fiction cinema, critiques of hypermasculinity and militant nationalism, and studies of folk horror traditions that recover silenced histories of caste oppression, patriarchy, and colonial trauma. Through analyses of horror, adaptation, realism, and speculative fiction, the volume argues that South Asian cinema functions as a contested cultural archive where identities, histories, and postcolonial anxieties are continuously rewritten.
KW  - Partition, Disease, Body, Trauma, Queer Desire, Queer Visibility, Queer Identity, Sexuality, Heteronormativity, Bollywood Cinema, Language, Gender, Identity, Male Gaze, New Gender Roles, Patriarchal Dominance, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, Postcolonial, Subaltern, Orientalism, Totalitarian Patriarchy, No woman’s land, Ouroboros, Islamicate, Courtesan, Hegemonic Femininity, Bombay Cinema
LA  - English
ER  -