Resources

The GOAT

https://bechdeltest.com/

Videos

1. The Cool Girl Trope, Explained

2. Why You Root for Gone Girl’s Amy Dunne

3. The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

4. Sexist Bollywood Dialogues

5. 6 Superhit Bollywood Films That Misrepresented Women

6. 48 Things Women Hear In A Lifetime (That Men Just Don’t)

7. The Misogyny In Mass Telugu Cinema | Video Essay by Sagar Tetali

8. What’s Wrong With Telugu Movies?

9. Misogyny in Thalapathy Vijay’s Films | Sachein, Sivakasi, Villu, Pokkiri, Jilla | Cinema Pronoia

10. American Pie & The Cult Of Misogyny

11. Bollywood Sexist Songs Fixed Feat. Tanmay Bhat & Abish Mathew

12. Hate To Break It To You Bollywood, But Your Sexist- Ageism Shows | The Quint

13. Why Are Women Used As S*x Objects? | RAAAZ Hindi Video ft. @AyushiMathur

14. 5 Sexist & Embarrassing Bollywood Movie Moments That Should Have Never Been Approved!

15. Bollywood’s ‘Age-Old’ Sexism Problem

16. How Bollywood Promotes R_A_P_E / Sexism in Bollywood | Latest Bollywood Movies | New Hindi Movie

17. Why are female friendships always shown as conflict in pop culture? | Feminism In India

18. the misogyny in k-pop you DON’T see

19. Sexism and Misogyny in k-pop

20. Misogynistic Microaggressions | Sahana Mathiarasan | TEDxYouth@UrsulineAcademy
    

In News

• RRR, KGF 2, Kantara: 5 of the top 8 films of this year fail miserably in this very important test, and we should be concerned | Bollywood News – The Indian Express
  

• Hindi Cinema and the Bechdel Test: Do Hindi Movies Pass the Test? | by Asmita sen | Medium

• Only 1 in 10 film directors in India is woman: study | Hindi Movie News

• In 2018, India reported a stalking case every 55 minutes. The actual number may be even higher
  

• How Kabir Singh Influenced A ‘Lover’ To Murder A Woman In ‘Bollywood-Style’
  

• Inspired By Kabir Singh, Delhi Man Posed As Surgeon On Tinder To Con Women
  

• Dhoke Ki Saza Hai Maut’: Crazy Lover Brags About Beheading Girlfriend For Cheating In UP’s Bulandshahr; Says He Is Sunjay Dutt Fan
  

• Not the first time Sanjay Dutt inspired someone to be a Khalnayak

• From reel to real: how boys, young men enter the world of crime in north-east Delhi – The Hindu

• Inspired By Drishyam, Man Kills 2 Sisters, Makes Everyone Including Police Believe That He Didn’t

• ‘Drishyam’ style murder in Kerala again, man and girlfriend kill and hide wife’s body

• Drishyam style murders, including BJP, leader bury dog to mislead police

• 7 times Indians got inspired by Bollywood to commit real crimes

• Shahid Kapoor’s ‘Farzi’, Allu Arjun’s ‘Pushpa’, John Abraham’s ‘Dhoom’: Bollywood movies/series that inspired real-life crimes

• KGF to Special 26: Films that inspired off-screen criminals | Hindi Movie News – Times of India

• Inspired by Bollywood films, friends took to crime | Delhi News – Times of India

• Why are Bollywood stars defending a hit and run? – BBC News

• Not Rape Or Crime Against Women, People Are Worried That Mardaani 2 Shows Kota In A Bad Light

Essays and Reports

• Why Purity Culture & Hookup Culture Are Equally Damaging To Women

• Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema | Screen | Oxford Academic

• Sexist Cinema and the Distorted Perception of Women Imposed in the Media | by I am Not Robot | Medium
  

• GENDER BIAS WITHOUT BORDERS
  

• Bollywood, Popular Visual Media, and Sexism in India: A Critical Glance Back – Sanchari Mukhopadhyay, Debanjan Banerjee, 2021

• The Influence of Media on Views of Gender

• The Streotypical Portrayal of Women in Commercial Indian Cinema
  

• 1 GENDER REFLECTIONS IN MAINSTREAM HINDI CINEMA Nidhi Shendurnikar Tere
  

• How Bollywood Plays a Role in Normalising Stalking

• Film industry perpetuates gender discrimination, says UN-backed study

• Gender inequality in movies: The world’s most popular films are overwhelmingly sexist

• Let’s Discuss ‘Kabir Singh’, ‘Arjun Reddy’ and Their Love For Toxic Masculinity – Culture

• Can movies motivate crimes in real life?

• How Bollywood Plays a Role in Normalising Stalking

• ‘Witching & Bitching’ and the demonisation of empowered women – Indy Film Library
  

• Hollywood’s Demonization of Ultra-Femininity

• Demonising intense women

• Questioning Laughter: Sexist Humour And Misogynistic Jokes In Stand-Up Comedy

• The male gaze: To what extent does Indian cinema still objectify women? | Vogue India
  

• It’s A Man’s World – The Male Gaze and the Film Industry | Gender and Technology Spring 2009

• Male Gaze. The Hindi film industry, or Bollywood… | by Media Club IIT (BHU) | Medium

• Caste in contemporary Bollywood movies: An analysis of the portrayal of characters – ScienceDirect
  

• Why are Bollywood small town heroes always upper caste

• Cinema and Caste: Examining Marginalised Narratives in Film | Economic and Political Weekly

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