HOW TO MAKE FEMALE ACTION HEROES by Madhusree Dutta
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HOW TO MAKE FEMALE ACTION HEROES by Madhusree Dutta
£8.00
Title How to Make Female Action Heroes
Author(s)/Editor(s) Madhusree Dutta
Publisher Kayfa ta
Pages 96
Dimensions 96 x 148 mm
Format Softcover
Year 2023

Indian stunt artists who hide their faces are paid more than those who show their faces, while Black women stunt artists are often cast for character types who don’t even get a proper name in the script. Madhusree Dutta writes on hierarchy and exclusion in cinematic practices, with alternating chapters from the life stories of two female film students. Situated in a space between the personal and the archival, Dutta maps the construction of the femme fatale look and the role of body-doubles in cinema when certain identities are preferred over others.

Madhusree Dutta is a filmmaker, curator and author based in Mumbai and Berlin.She has been the executive director of Majlis Culture, a centre for rights discourse and art initiatives in Mumbai, 1998-2016; and artistic director of Academy of the Arts of the World in Cologne (ADKDW), 2018-2021. Her areas of interest are documentary practices, urban cultures, migration movements, transient identities, and lived-in hybridity.

Commissioned and published by Kayfa ta (2023)
Design template by Julie Peeters
Cover illustration by Ali Yass
Printed in Riga, 2023
ISBN 978-1-955702-21-8 (English)

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