1ICSSR, Research Associate & Ph. D Research Scholar (Reg. No. 17214011021041), Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India
2Assistant Professor and Project Director, ICSSR, MRP, Department of Communication, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. Tamilnadu, India
Online published on 10 September, 2019.
Cinema is a conceptual medium of audience. It can cover large number of audience. This mass media is a well popularized art in this world. India is the largest market for cinema. Many films have been produced every year. Especially, Box office hit collection movies reached huge audience. According to mulvey (1975), Films stimulate visual pleasure by integrating structures of voyeurism and narcissism into the story and the image. Further Mulvey states that, Voyeuristic visual pleasure is produced by looking at another, whereas narcissistic visual pleasure can be derived from self-identification with the figure in the image. Therefore, this study has taken Tamil film director Shankar's cinema to analysis the content in representation of women. This study has taken the Feminist film theory invented by Annekie Smelik. This study objectives are Director Shankar's cinema representation and construct of women. This study using content analysis method of analyze women construction in Director Shankar's cinema.
Feminist analysis, Gender Construction, Feminist film Theory, Gender studies, Tamil cinema
