The Men and the Media

Title

The Men and the Media

Creator

Talukdar H.

Description

This chapter examines the significant transformations of the representations of lead male characters in Bollywood cinema post-2000 from the perspective of contemporary gender and cultural theories. The objective of the study is to gain an insight into the relationship between capitalism and masculinities; sports and masculinities; patriarchy and masculinities; the reversal of the male gaze into the female gaze, and how all these have contributed ultimately to the emergence of a new order of masculinity at the turn of the new millennium. Towards the end, the reader is invited to understand the entanglement of capitalism, sports and patriarchy in forming a kind of homosocial male bonding and how media has played a significant role in constructing it through a study of selected films. Masculinities and their consumerist connotations, which vary according to post-liberal economic and cultural contexts, have also been investigated in this study. 2024 selection and editorial matter, Francis Philip Barclay and Kaifia Ancer Laskar; individual chapters, the contributors.

Source

Gender and Popular Visual Culture in India: Benevolent Sexism and Disguised Discrimination, pp. 164-178.

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Coverage

Talukdar H., Christ University, Delhi NCR, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 978-100099698-2; 978-103256144-8

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003434092-19

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