INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Abstract: Female voice is a neglected concept within the ambit of feminist film theory. The feminist critique of cinema has largely been concerned about the image track----the ways in which woman is represented as an object of male gaze. Laura Mulvey, for instance, in her groundbreaking article ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, argued that the spectators are encouraged to identify the look of the male hero and turn the heroine into a passive object of erotic spectacle. The concept of female voice, however, is explored by the American film critic, Kaza Silverman. In her book ‘The Acoustic Mirror’ she argued that in classical narrative cinema, women’s voices are invariably tied to their corporeal anchor, presented as ‘thick with body’.
The present paper seeks to show that in cinema gender discrimination operates not only through visual image but also through soundtrack. In Indian cinema female voiceovers are never heard narrating from a disembodied, omniscient perspective outside the diegesis as some male voiceovers do. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminism, and film theory (especially the works of Michel Chion and Kaza Silverman) this paper also intends to offer a critique of the Indian cinema, with special reference to Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari, Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome and Ashutosh Gwarikar’s Lagaan, for its complete absence of disembodied female voice.
"VOICES VEILED: UNVEILING THE GENDERED NARRATIVES OF DISEMBODIED VOICE IN THE AUDITORY LANDSCAPE OF INDIAN CINEMA", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.7, Issue 8, page no.11-16, August-2022, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2208184.pdf
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