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Reframing female bodies in Sri Lankan cinema: 28 and Asandhimitta revisited.
- Source :
- South Asian Popular Culture; Apr2023, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p77-88, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The paper provides a comparative reading of the female protagonists in two Sri Lankan films, focusing on how the female body becomes a contentious site of gendered violence, subject to state and male surveillance and containment. Through a close analysis of Prasanna Jayakody's 28 (2014) and Asoka Handagama's Asandhimitta (2019), this paper attempts to reveal how Sri Lankan cinema violently reconfigures the female body as a site of negotiation for articulation of victimhood and desire and becomes a potential space for the inscription of feminist issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- VIOLENCE in motion pictures
FEMALES
MASS surveillance
VIOLENCE against women
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14746689
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- South Asian Popular Culture
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163806438
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14746689.2022.2115722