ANTH 079B. Dancing Desire in Bollywood Films

(Cross-listed as DANC 079)
This course will explore the shifts in sexuality and gender constructions of Indian women from national to transnational symbols through the dance sequences in Bollywood. We will examine the place of erotic in reconstructing gender and sexuality from past notions of romantic love to desires for commodity. The primary focus will be centered on approaches to the body from anthropology and sociology to performance, dance, and film and media studies.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for ASIA, FMST, GSST
Spring 2025. Chakravorty.
Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology

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