Screening culture, viewing politics : an ethnography of television, womanhood, and nation postcolonial India /

In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mankekar, Purnima, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Television broadcasting > Social aspects > India.
Television programs > India.
Television in community development > India.
Television and women > India.
Television in politics > India.
Télévision > Aspect social > Inde.
Émissions télévisées > Inde.
Télévision dans le développement communautaire > Inde.
Télévision et femmes > Inde.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Television and women
Television broadcasting > Social aspects
Television in community development
Television in politics
Television programs
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Culture Wars
  • pt. I. Fields of Power: The National Television Family. Ch. 2. National Television and the "Viewing Family" Ch. 3. "Women-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman
  • pt. II. Engendering Communities. Ch. 4. Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation. Ch. 5. Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman's Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi's "Disrobing"
  • pt. III. Technologies of Violence. Ch. 6. "Air Force Women Don't Cry": Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender. Ch. 7. Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory. Epilogue: Sky Wars.

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