Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER

Stutterheim, Kerstin

Abstract

In my chapter, I will give an impression of the significance of the trilogy in relation to a female author's particular perspective on India's independence from Britain and the division of society and also religious radicalisation that accompanied it. As a screenwriter, she places various female characters at the centre of her films, each grouped from a different perspective around this event, which was accompanied by mass murder. In particular, I will look at the particular narrative perspective that results from making women protagonists and telling the story from their perspective. These women characters all stand in a cultural context, each with dreams and active actions for a self-determined life. These films are precisely embedded in the cultural context and yet understandable for a global audience. How precisely they aim at the circumstances is evident in the attacks on their filming and death threats that had forced them to shoot the last film of the trilogy outside India.

Citation

Stutterheim, K. (in press). Deepa Mehta’s Frauenfiguren in FIRE - EARTH - WATER. In C. Lang, & K. Nühlen (Eds.), Frauen in der Drehbucharbeit: Geschichte, Produktion, Ästhetik. De Gruyter

• Deposit Date: Jul 31, 2023
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Drehbuchforschung
• Book Title: Frauen in der Drehbucharbeit: Geschichte, Produktion, Ästhetik
• ISBN: 9783111206608
• Keywords: Film; Women Rights; Screenwriting; Dramaturgy; Film Aesthetics; India
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3158475
• Publisher URL: https://www.degruyter.com