• DR ROHITH LS

The proposed paper examines the importance of study of women directors’ cinema as a counter cinema, which has been developing as a major form of literary studies. This paper examines how Indian women directors made the representation of women in their film and how much space they have given to support their women audience. Today Cinema is no more a mere source of entertainment because it has become a field in popular culture, where dominant ideologies are circulated, stereotypes are framed, and various discourses are projected. Visual media or cinema has greater degree of impact on audience or viewers. The focus is also on how camera techniques and camera gaze influences in their cinema and how do they create female gaze. The aspect of Gaze (male or female Gaze) analyzed with reference to feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey’s arguments and politics behind the camera, the politics which encourage in perpetuating a particular set of stereotypical nature of images to the characters. Finally it tries to see are they given authentic representation and space or they just maintain the hegemonic ideology.

counter cinema, Visual media, hegemonic ideology. and male gaze

"Women Representations and Space: A Study of the films of Aparna Sen and Deepa Mehta ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.296-304, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812643.pdf

"Women Representations and Space: A Study of the films of Aparna Sen and Deepa Mehta ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp296-304, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812643.pdf