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Pooja Das Sarkar

Pooja Das Sarkar had completed her Masters from TISS in Media and Cultural Studies. Cinema has always fascinated her and her favourites include Woody Allen when it comes to comic genius and Kieslowski when it comes to representing the human condition in sheer poetry.

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Cinema & Sexuality: On the Death of the Desiring Woman

Why is it that the woman (female lead) in cinema is usually represented as a shadow of the man’s desire – existing only in response to the man’s desires?