South Asian Media Cultures (eBook, PDF)

Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Redaktion: Banaji, Shakuntala

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Produktbeschreibung

'South Asian Media Cultures' is a collection of essays that pulls together field-based audience and textual research in areas such as the politics of new media, contemporary television and film in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and their audiences. Through a careful analysis of the various media cultures and practices from across South Asia, this collection addresses pertinent issues such as how discourses on gender, nationalism, ethnicity and class are being expressed by mainstream media texts across South Asia, and how different groups within the public discern meanings from such discourses.

With this collection, Banaji aims to reduce the reliance on commercial Hindi cinema ('Bollywood') for reference on the politics and history of South Asian Media. Instead, key current research and theoretical debate are presented in an accessible manner. They are organised around three clear themes: 'Audiences, meanings and social contexts', which focuses on the responses of particular social groups to specific media formats, ideas or genres; 'Media Discourse, Identity and Politics', which discusses the complex links between media representations and socio-political identities; and 'Alternative Producers: New Media, Politics and Civic Participation', which describes and assesses the various civic practices and possibilities opened up in South Asia by digital and mobile communications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781843313205
• Artikelnr.: 44472231

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