The gendered film worker: Women in cinema collective, intimate publics and the politics of labour

Mannil, Bindu Meno (2019) The gendered film worker: Women in cinema collective, intimate publics and the politics of labour. Studies in South Asian Film & Media, 11 (2). pp. 191-207. ISSN 1756-4921

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Abstract

Although Indian cinema studies as a discipline has long been involved in various theoretical elaborations of film production, not until recently has it engaged with the question of the gendered nature of film work. In this piece, I attempt to develop a framework centred around the politics of labour to provide a useful case to highlight how thoughtful engagement with these categories provides immense value for both contemporary film scholarship and feminist histories of media. In trying to situate Women in Cinema Collective, the first collective of women film workers to be formed in India, in the larger history of labour politics and women workers collectives of the recent past, I try to disaggregate a larger episteme of women’s work that emerges across the flexible labour economies of the neo-liberal present. Through examining the Women in Cinema Collective’s social media campaigns, advocacy work, petitioning and legal counselling, I argue that Women in Cinema Collective emerges as a tenuous collective whose work moves across the porous boundaries of a new social movement, workers collective and an autonomous women’s group.

Item Type:	Article
Authors:	Mannil, Bindu Meno
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	feminist media collectives, film history, film work, gender and labour, precarious labour, women and cinema
Subjects:	Social sciences > Sociology & anthropology > Culture & institutions > Specific aspects of culture > Recreation and performing arts Social sciences > Economics > Labor economics > Labor force and market
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	None
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7460
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.1386/safm_00028_1

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