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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mankekar, Purnima, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Télévision > Émissions > Inde.
Télévision dans le développement communautaire > Inde.
Télévision et femmes > Inde.
Télévision en politique > Inde.
Émissions télévisées > Inde.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
Television and women.
Television broadcasting > Social aspects.
Television in community development.
Television in politics.
Television programs.
Vrouwen.
Televisie.
Identiteit.
Verteltheorie.
India.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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