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Editing is Women’s Work: an Anthro-historical Study of Female Editors in Indian Media Industries

BERSAS-Lecture
Veranstaltet von

Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

 
Kurzbeschreibung

In this talk, I foreground the embodied and affective experiences of film editing in Bollywood
and show how and why it has been classified as feminized labour. My two-year long
ethnographic data collection reveals the nuances of film editing by denoting how editors
mediate as a bridge between production houses and audiences. I analyse the anthropological
and historical gaps in scholarship that have also justified the low pay, contractual/ outsourced
employment and lack of acknowledgement across post-production marketing events of editors
in India. Instead, I focus on highlighting their significance and contribution in film production
and distribution. The two questions guiding this study are: What distinguishes editing processes
within the relationalities of film production cultures, especially now within the increasingly
networked societies, dynamic viewership patterns and relatively easy access to diverse global
media cultures? Why did/ do women pursue film editing in India and whatchallenges have they
encountered historically and across contemporary times?

 

Konzeption und Organisation

Nadja-Christina Schneider

 

Referent*innen

Dr. Priyam Sinha (NUS & Visiting Scholar at IAAW)

 

Gefördert von

This event is funded by the project BUA-NUS South Asian Studies
Initiative (GAMS)Initiative (GAMS)

 

Weitere Informationen

Poster (PDF)

 

Semester: Wintersemester 2024/25


ZtG-Veranstaltungskategorie: Gender-Veranstaltungen der Institute/Fakultäten der HU