Reading patriarchal manhood, violence and love in Kabir Singh (2019)

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D. Ganguly, Rajni Singh
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ABSTRACT The present essay discusses the visual representation of masculinity in Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Kabir Singh (2019). Kabir Singh is a macho-melodrama and a romantic account of the eponymous character, Kabir Singh, and his spiralling into self-destruction following his separation from his love interest, Preeti Sikka. Through the strategic exploitation of masculine tropes and symbols in the cinematic narrative, Vanga aims to construct the male protagonist, Kabir, as the public face of the hegemonic masculine ideology. The film, which offers to its audience a heteronormative heterotopia, also reinforces the patriarchal agenda through the portrayal of a sentimental, submissive woman with negligible autonomy. The article aims to develop its argument of masculinity and its association with pervasive power in the film through the reading of specific scenes through the intellectual and theoretical apparatuses of R.W. Connell, Michael Kimmell, and Michael Kaufman. It looks at the construction of masculinities as a homosocial enactment and also reads the protagonist’s borderline toxic behaviour through the theories of machoism and overcompensation of masculine identities. The paper concludes with situating Kabir Singh in Bollywood’s continuum of toxic masculinity. Through the deployment of masculinities and its nexus with sexism, this research paper also aims to query how machoistic scripts of masculinity implicate heterosexual romantic relationships.
阅读Kabir Singh的父权制男子气概、暴力和爱情(2019)
摘要本文讨论了Sandeep Reddy Vanga的Kabir Singh(2019)中男性气质的视觉表现。《卡比尔·辛格》是一部充满男子气概的情节剧,浪漫地讲述了同名角色卡比尔·辛格,以及他与爱人普雷蒂·西卡分手后陷入自我毁灭的故事。通过对电影叙事中男性比喻和符号的战略性利用,万加旨在将男主人公卡比尔塑造成霸权男性意识形态的公众形象。这部电影为观众提供了一个非规范的异托邦,通过塑造一个多愁善感、顺从、自主性微不足道的女性,也强化了父权制议程。本文旨在通过R.W.Connell、Michael Kimmell和Michael Kaufman的智力和理论装置对特定场景的解读,来发展其对男性气概及其与电影中普遍权力的联系的论点。它将男性气质的构建视为一种同性恋社会行为,并通过男性主义和对男性身份的过度补偿理论解读主人公的边缘有毒行为。文章最后将卡比尔·辛格置于宝莱坞有毒男性气质的连续体中。通过对男性气质的部署及其与性别歧视的关系,本研究论文还旨在质疑男性气质的男性主义脚本如何暗示异性恋浪漫关系。
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South Asian Popular Culture
South Asian Popular Culture Arts and Humanities-Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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