From the Mother India to an Urban Love Romance Heroin, Feminist Representation in Indian Films
| Project/Area Number |
26370191
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Art at large
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| Research Institution | Kobe Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
Akai Toshio 神戸学院大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00192873)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Keywords | インド映画 / 南アジア / ジェンダー格差 / 神話 / スターシステム / セレブリティ / 映像学 / 女優監督 / 女流監督 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research was to make obvious how gender difference is visually represented in Indian Cinema, and how the shift of the representation is competed with Indian audiences' appreciation of womanhood as a significant part of workforce in India’s modernizing society. My research employed three approaches; historical analysis in film study, the review of "female-centering films," and the interviews with the heroine actresses, and those of other departments of the film industry. The first two approaches were not productive as expected. However, the third one was fertile in discovering that certain actresses, bestowed with acute sense of the female representation, are conscious of social incidents such as the Delhi rape case in 2012, and their social awareness makes them a leading figure in several liberal movements, thereby the creation of an unborn female-centering film, entirely different from an existing one in style and manner, is being motivated in their minds.
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