Gender, Sexuality, and Indian Cinema

Queer Visuals

Edited By: Srija Sanyal

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This volume explores India's queer space through its presence in film and the digital arena. Essays from multicultural perspectives depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness in a rare scholastic endeavour.

This edited volume offers a comprehensive understanding of the queer space in tandem with the transforming socio-cultural-political relationships in a country that exhibits diversified shades…

This edited volume offers a comprehensive understanding of the queer space in tandem with the transforming socio-cultural-political relationships in a country that exhibits diversified shades of ideologies and history – that is, India. The featured essays deal with the presence of queerness in visual media, particularly in films and the digital arena, from multilingual and multicultural perspectives, thus creating an exhaustive discourse encompassing argument and analysis. This book aims to depict the plurality and complexity of the Indian scenario, fostering mass acceptance of queerness, a rare scholastic endeavour.

Srija Sanyal is a research scholar at the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship, USA, and her work focuses on the field of gender and queer theory in the Indian context. She holds a master’s degree in English literature from the University of Delhi, India. As the recipient of the Ronin Institute Research Scholarship, her upcoming project includes a monograph on gender and songs in Indian cinema. Her other areas of research interest include gender and visual media, South Asian studies, and women’s writing.

Anagha Biju, Aparna Shastri, Aryehi Bhushan, Anil Pradhan, Adith K. Suresh, Akshay Kumar, Asma Rasheed, Jaya Sarkar, Nizara Hazarika, Raunak Ghosh, Sony Jalarajan Raj, Srija Sanyal, Pritha Sarkar, Pema Gyalchen Tamang