This book is a comprehensive anthology comprising essays on women film directors, producers and screenwriters from Bollywood, or the popular Hindi film industry

These efforts have been enabled by the neoliberal restructuring of the Indian state and economy since 1991.

Bollywood’s New Woman examines Bollywood’s construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminates the

What does it mean to be a woman filmmaker in India? One famous director suffered from depression, unable to take on film projects because of her young child. An

This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmm