White Skin/ Brown Masks: The Case of "White" Actresses From Silent to Early Sound Period in Bombay
My paper explores categories of gender, ethnicity, modernity and performance through the figure of the "white" actress in the early years of Indian cinema (1920-1940). Film was a lucrative site of business for intrepidly ambitious individuals in search of reinvention in Bombay. For women f...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2019-02-01
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| Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2018103332 |