‘Breaking’ the Silence and ‘Fighting’ Back: Changing Representations of Female Response to Gender-Based Violence in Select Malayalam Films

Representation, particularly mediated forms such as cinema, has always been a powerful tool to enable social change. On the one hand, cinema functions as an instrument that reinstates hegemonic patriarchy, but on the other, it also becomes “a tool for political resistance and subversion” (Lauret, 19...

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Main Authors: Parvathy N, Tripathi Priyanka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2024-12-01
Series:Gender Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2024-0008
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