The Accented Cinema: A Narrative Analysis of Bollywood film Water.
The cinema act as a mass medium that project intangible reality related to the socio-cultural setting of an era with reference to gender portrayal that may envelope the viewers perception. This article focusses on the representation of gender disparity in the film Water (2005) directed by Deepa Meht...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities (1994-7046) Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 19 - 29 |
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| Formato: | Film/TV Criticism and Review |
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Allama Iqbal Open University
2025
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