Posts Tagged: cinema

The PSA Newsletter #30 focuses on the theme “Decolonizing the Ecological Crisis”, and explores notions of the Anthropocene, human and more-than-human agency, as well as examining the intersections between colonialism and our current ecological challenges through the lens of storytelling. It features six original contributions. Athira Unni examines the lasting legacies of colonialism on postcolonial landscapes and ecological conditions in South Asia through analysis of Manjula Padmanabhan’s contemporary dystopian novel Escape. Mettin Jacob analyses Kota Neelima’s novel Shoes of the Deadto ... Read more

The PSA Newsletter #29 focuses on the theme “The Ambivalent Machismo: Representation, Mediascape, and Female Leads in Cinema”,and explores notions of femininity, stereotypes of hegemonic masculinity, and the politics of media representation, especially cinema. It features four original contributions that engage with cinematic representations of womanhood from different perspectives: Syed Amaan Raza Rizvi discusses the evolution of female characters in Indian commercial cinema; Esti Sugiharti explores postcolonial Chinese femininities through analysis of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians film; Yasmin Chaudhuri discusses ... Read more