Bodies in Waiting : Remapping Gender, Labour, and Histories of the Indian Film Industry (1930s–1950s)

Reflecting on the burgeoning field of feminist media histories and contemporary debates around Shanta Apte’s films, protests, and writing, along with sources that bring narratives from different women in the film industry, this paper argues that such discussions enable us to rethink questions of gender, creative labour, characteristics of film work, and the industrial milieu.

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