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Transgender in India: A Semiotic and Reception Analysis of Bollywood Movies
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In this paper, the authors analyzed two transgender themed films and the audience reception of those representations by 20 members of the transgender community, and applied syntagmatic and paradigmatic analyses to understand how images are used to represent and relay information to the audience.Abstract:
The transgender community in India, commonly known as hijras, consists of people who were born as males but address themselves as females. They have been considered as the third gender in India for millennia and have had specific religious and sociocultural values and roles, but are forced to live in shadows in this day and age. Isolation of this community is also reflected in the way transgender characters are represented in Indian entertainment media. The study analyses two transgender themed films semiotically and the audience reception of those representations by 20 members of the transgender community. Semiotics is a helpful tool to understand the ways signs communicate ideas to viewers. This study applies syntagmatic and paradigmatic analyses to understand how images are used to represent and relay information to the audience. Reception theory along with double colonization has been incorporated in this study to analyse the ways in which the transgender community interprets the representations in entertainment media.read more
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