Book Talk: Women’s Transborder Cinema by Esha Niyogi De

Women’s Transborder Cinema looks at previously submerged histories of women directors, film entrepreneurs, female stars and authors from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. Drawing on neglected archives and rare oral histories, Esha Niyogi De tells a comparative story of women’s creative authority and entrepreneurial labor in film industries of South Asia that share languages, arts, and geopolitical rifts. To illustrate this complex history of female filmmaking in South Asia, the talk will include screening of rare film footage and archival material.

February 16 | Raah Lab (FB 630.17), 1250 Rue Guy | 5:30 PM

Esha Niyogi De’s research focuses on South Asian gender politics, film history, and literary history. She is the author of, among other publications, Women’s Transborder Cinema (University of Illinois Press, 2024) and Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman: A Feminist Critique of Postcolonial Thought (Oxford University Press, 2011). Esha teaches in the Faculty of Humanities at UCLA and is an Affiliate of the UCLA Center for India and South Asia.

This event was co-sponsored by Southern Asia Studies.