2018/05/01 by Shehram Mokhtar · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #South Asian Cinema and Culture #Cinema and Media Studies #Gender, Feminism, and Media
paper · doi:10.5399/uo/ada.2018.13.2
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This article interprets the 1979 Pakistani film Aurat Raj (Women’s Rule) as a work of feminist speculative fiction. The film presents a radically reimagined gendered world through its narrative of role reversal. Drawing on the concept of hacking as a practice of inspection and reconfiguration, I read women’s characters in Aurat Raj as entering and … Continue reading Aurat Raj: Hacking Masculinity & Reimagining Gender in South Asian Cinema →