Gender Minority and its Changing Portrayal in Bollywood Films
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31-03-2021
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Social Trends
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Roy, Sanjay K.
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University of North Bengal
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Chowdhury, A. (31 C.E.). Gender Minority and its Changing Portrayal in Bollywood Films. Social Trends, 8, 183–201. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4167
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Chowdhury, Ankita
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This paper outlines how the sexual minorities like LGBTQ
are represented in Bollywood films. Cinema is the most important
medium that influences people’s opinion and it has contributed a lot
to the spread of queer awareness and queer movement. This paper
aims to give some idea about how LGBTQ is portrayed in cinema and
how such portrayal influences peoples’ perceptions about them. The
paper talks about how Hindi films have represented different discourses
on the LGBT theme over time. It took almost 40 years for Indian cinema
to portray a homosexual character. Since then, there have been
differential representations of the LGBT community and the audience
in this homophobic society has also reacted differentially.
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8
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2348-6538
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183 - 201