EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam, Bombay Riots, Bildungsroman
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Lecture 6 funny boy" feb 10. In the film, muslim-hindu couple, about bombay riots about the hindus. Video"s response to women is that they are sex objects; women"s attractiveness is defined in terms of a voluptuous body. Sexually suggestive instead of sexually active as in india media is not allowed to show kisses between men and women. They engage in foreplay in a non-physical way imitating a movie, this shows cultural presence. Can be argued that the more voluptuous a body, the more sexual and fertile a woman is; unlike western standards that idealize a thin body, aka anorexic = infertile. At the end of the film, a ball of flames erupts; hyper stylized, sometimes uses rain to show the curves of the bodies = bollywood"s version of a wet t-shirt contest. Gender difference is emphatic: the stronger the gender markers are, the clearer the differences of what defines gender.
