Elora Halim Chowdhury Ethical Encounters sku-911571733

Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh is a hardcover by Elora Halim Chowdhury. It examines feminism, human rights and memory in contemporary, women-centered Muktijuddho films about the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Chowdhury discusses the feminist films Meherjaan and Itihaash Konna (Daughters of History), alongside Jonmo Shathi (Born Together) and Shadhinota (A Certain Liberation), films by activist filmmakers. She considers how these works imagine, disrupt and reinscribe gendered accounts of trauma, freedom and agency, and how war cinema may open possibilities for gender justice.

Drawing on Black and transnational feminist critiques, she explores women's roles in war, their portrayal as victims of violence and agents of the nation, and film's potential as an archive of feminist knowledge. The book also addresses witnessing, spectatorship, responsibility and the tensions between humanity, liberty and justice. Listed in Performing Arts Books under SKU sku-911571733.