South Asian Media Cultures

Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Herausgeber: Banaji, Shakuntala

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781843318422
• ISBN-10: 1843318423
• Artikelnr.: 28205623

Autorenporträt

Shakuntala Banaji is an Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics (LSE). 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Talking Back to 'Bollywood': Hindi Commercial Cinema in
North-East India; 'Adverts Make Me Want to Break the Television': Indian
Children and their Audiovisual Media Environment in Three Contrasting
Locations; Urdu for Image: Understanding Bangladeshi Cinema through its
Theatres; Musical Media and Cosmopolitanism in Nepal's Popular Music,
1950-2006; Private Satellite Television and the Geo-Politics of Moderation
in Pakistan; Forgetting to Remember: The Privatisation of the Public, the
Economisation of Hindutva, and the Medialisation of Genocide; Myth - The
National Form: Mission Istanbul and Muslim Representation in Hindi Popular
Cinema; A Peace of Soap: Representations of Peace and Conflict in Popular
Teledramas in Sri Lanka; Destigmatising Star Texts - Honour and Shame among
Muslim Women in Pakistani Cinema; Through the Lens of a 'Branded Criminal':
The Politics of Marginal Cinema in India; Pakistani Students' Uses of New
Media to Construct a Narrative of Dissent; Expanding the Art of the
Possible: Leveraging Citizen Journalism and User Generated Content (USG)
for Peace in Sri Lanka; Conclusion; List of Contributors