Stanford Humanities Center 's video: Inside the Center CCSRE Chautauqua: Usha Iyer

Film scholar Usha Iyer, a fellow at both the Stanford Humanities Center and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) for 2020-21, discusses "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema." Her book examines female dancing in popular Hindi cinema from the 1930s to the 1990s to explore how cinematic dance forms produce unique constructions of gender, sexuality, stardom, and spectacle. Professor Iyer is joined by CCSRE Director Jennifer DeVere Brody and Humanities Center Director Roland Greene. Due to copyright issues, some movie clips have been removed. The excerpts referenced in the talk can be viewed on the "Dancing Women" companion site. Clip from “Muqabla hum se na karo,” Prince (Lekh Tandon, 1969) https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780190938741/res/intro/01/ Clip from “Piya tu ab toh aa ja,” Caravan (Nasir Hussain, 1971) https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780190938741/res/ch2/01/ Clip from “Baithe hain kya uske paas,” Jewel Thief (Vijay Anand, 1967) https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780190938741/res/ch2/06/ Find more events: https://shc.stanford.edu https://ccsre.stanford.edu/