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India and its visual cultures : community, class and gender in a symbolic landscape /

Comprehensive and novel overview of visual cultures and practices specifically in India, which goes beyond the primary or sole focus on still and moving images.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skoda, Uwe, 1973- (Editor ), Lettmann, Birgit (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: SAGE Publications, 2017.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Mapping Visual Cultures in India
  • Part I Camera Works
  • Chapter 1 The Photograph in Social Science Research: A Few Ethical and Practical Questions
  • Chapter 2 Unlikely â#x80;#x98;Devisâ#x80;#x99;: Gender and Imagination On and Off the Silver Screen
  • Chapter 3 Visualising Death and the Corpse: Perspectives on Post-mortem Photographs in Central-Eastern India
  • Part II Folk/Artistry
  • Chapter 4 9/11 and the Fol k Artists of Bengal
  • Chapter 5 From Ritual Images to Animated Movies: The Transformative Journey of the Sora Paintings(Central-Eastern India) Chapter 6 Anjan Senâ#x80;#x99;s Visual Poetry and the Bengal Uttar-Adhunik School
  • Part III Market Signs
  • Chapter 7 The Visual Culture of Meat-shop Signs in Delhi
  • Chapter 8 The Imagery of Indian Matchmaking: Representations of Community, Class and Genderin a Transnational Online Matrimonial Market
  • Part IV Pictorial Politics
  • Chapter 9 A Museum, a Memorial, and a Martyr: Politics of Memory in the Sikh Golden Temple
  • Chapter 10 Divine Order, Social Disorder:Debating the Visual Representations of Lalu Prasad YadavChapter 11 Amma Provides for All: Popular Devotional Aesthetics, Material Politics and the Amman in Tamil Nadu
  • Part V Monumental Landscapes
  • Chapter 12 Building â#x80;#x98;Monumentsâ#x80;#x99; in a World-class City: Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Delhi
  • Chapter 13 Mayawatiâ#x80;#x99;s Politics of Sthals:Spectacle of the Symbolic Landscape
  • About the Editors and Contributors