Television in India (eBook, PDF)

Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change
Redaktion: Mehta, Nalin

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s and its implications for Indian society more widely, discussing the rapid expansion in independent satellite channels, and in viewing figures, and the corresponding growth in new ways of imagining identities, conducting politics and engaging with the state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134062133
• Artikelnr.: 43074048

Autorenporträt

Nalin Mehta has a PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne and has been a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum (2007). A former DFID Commonwealth scholar, he has over 10 years of experience as a broadcast journalist, most recently as Deputy News Editor and news presenter at Times Now, one of India's most popular 24-hour English news networks. His other publications include India on Television (New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2008). He now works for UNAIDS India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Satellite Television, Identity and Globalisation in
Contemporary India Nalin Mehta 2. The Mahatma Didn't Like the Movies and
Why It Matters: Indian Broadcasting Policy, 1920s-1990s Robin Jeffrey 3.
India Talking: Politics, Democracy and News Television Nalin Mehta 4.
Politics Without Television: The BSP and the Dalit Counter-Public Sphere
Maxine Loynd 5. Muslims on Television: News and Representation on Satellite
Channels Roshni Sengupta 6. "Give Me a Vote, and I Will Give You a TV Set":
Television in Tamil Nadu Politics Maya Ranganathan 7. Soaps, Serials and
the CPI(M), Cricket Beat Them All: Cricket and Television in Contemporary
India Boria Majumdar 8. Bowling with the Wind: A Television Producer's View
on Cricket and Satellite TV in Contemporary India Peter Hutton 9. Changing
Contexts, New Texts: 'Inserting' TV Into the Transforming Text of Post-1980
Bengali Cinema Sharmistha Gooptu