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- Title
PORTRAYAL OF SEXUAL MINORITIES IN HINDI FILMS.
- Authors
Sanjeev Kumar Sabharwal; Reetika Sen
- Abstract
Sexual minority or Alternative sexuality comprises of all those people who fall under the categories of Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Eunuchs. This paper basically compares the portrayal of sexual minorities in Mainstream and Alternative Hindi Cinema. It talks about how Mainstream Hindi cinema which is the most widely distributed cinema in India and abroad has traditionally adopted an attitude of denial or mockery towards LGBTQ community. Representations of sexual Minorities have veered between the sarcasm, comic and the criminal. Where as Alternative Cinema which is confined to film festivals and a handful selected group of viewers portrays sexual minorities in more realistic manner and is successful in raising, expressing & suggesting possible solutions to their problems in more effective manner as compared to the main stream cinema. This is a qualitative as well as quantitative research and the methodology adopted to find out the answers to the questions is content analysis of four Hindi films and survey. Two films of mainstream and two of alternative cinema were selected randomly. Both secondary and primary data was collected, from various reliable sources like journals, websites, articles, movie reviews of different newspapers etc. Along with this, a questionnaire survey was conducted on a sample of 50 students pursuing Bachelors and Postgraduate courses in Journalism and Mass Communication. They were categorized as skilled and highly skilled groups respectively in order to find out their views regarding the portrayal of sexual minorities in the Mainstream and Alternative Hindi cinema.
- Subjects
SEXUAL minorities; LGBTQ+ people; EUNUCHS; MASS media; JOURNALISM
- Publication
Global Media Journal: Indian Edition, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2249-5835
- Publication type
Article