Communicator Volume LII, Number 2, April–June 2017 Contents 1. The Odyssey of Portrayal: Woman in Indian Cinema 03 Akanksha Shukla 2. Visual Framing in Indian Print Media: 25 A Preliminary Investigation Sunil Kumar 3. Communicating Social Change through Cinema: 43 A Case Study Swikrita Dowerah 4. Cartooning in Journalism: Mapping the Origin 63 and Growth of Cartooning in India Mrinal Chatterjee 5. Reflective Image of Honour Killings in Cinema: 75 Anthropological Inferences from Tamil Cinema Arunkumar A.S. & Jesurathnam Devarapalli Vol. LII (2), April–June, 2017 LII (2), Vol. Communicator 03 1 Associate Professor, Centre for Post Graduate Studies, National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR), Rajendranagar, Hyderabad – 500 030, India. Email:
[email protected] Abstract This study is an effort to understand the various stereotypical and novel images portrayed by women in Indian Cinema. All vehicles of media play a significant role in the life of an individual but the socio-cultural force that cinema holds is the strongest. Various media theories have been formulated which promulgate the idea that what is reflected in media, particularly cinema is a mirror image of the society. This study traces imagery as portrayed in Indian Cinema and points out works where the mould has been broken to go beyond the skin deep beauty and explore the inner self. The conclusion highlights the tangential relations between media, state and religion and its cascading effects on portrayal in cinema. Keywords Indian cinema, Portrayal of woman, Bollywood, Commercial cinema, Feminism he issues of media, identity and gender are a constant source of 5 discourse amongst academicians, thinkers as well as the media April–June, 2017 LII (2), Vol.