Image Journeys
Audio-Visual Media and Cultural Change in India
SAGE Publications Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-7619-9326-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume examines the influence of audio-visual media in cultural change in India. The essays focus on: the dynamics of network change; the relationships between image and viewer; and the journey of images between points of reading in contemporary India that are mediated through television, cinema, video and the internet.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9326-1 (9780761993261)
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Persons
Melissa Butcher is a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney, working on transnational corporate cultures in Asia and Australia.
Content
Introduction - Christiane Brosius and Melissa Butcher
Image Journeys
Transnational Class, Erotic Arcadia and Commercial Utopia in Hindi Films - Ronald Inden
Doordarshan - Britta Ohm
Representing the Nation's State
Is this the Real Thing? Packaging Cultural Nationalism - Christiane Brosius
Bordering Realism - Sophie Hawkins
The Aesthetics of Sai Baba's Mediated Universe
Parallel Texts - Melissa Butcher
The Body and Television in India
Bachchan-alias - Lalit Vachani
The Many Faces of a Film Icon
The Troubled Existence of Sex and Sexuality - Shohini Ghosh
Feminists Engage with Censorship
Dish is Life - Samina Mishra
Cable Operators and the Neighbourhood
Vision Mixing - Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Marriage-Video-Film and the Video-Walla's Images of Life
Image Journeys
Transnational Class, Erotic Arcadia and Commercial Utopia in Hindi Films - Ronald Inden
Doordarshan - Britta Ohm
Representing the Nation's State
Is this the Real Thing? Packaging Cultural Nationalism - Christiane Brosius
Bordering Realism - Sophie Hawkins
The Aesthetics of Sai Baba's Mediated Universe
Parallel Texts - Melissa Butcher
The Body and Television in India
Bachchan-alias - Lalit Vachani
The Many Faces of a Film Icon
The Troubled Existence of Sex and Sexuality - Shohini Ghosh
Feminists Engage with Censorship
Dish is Life - Samina Mishra
Cable Operators and the Neighbourhood
Vision Mixing - Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Marriage-Video-Film and the Video-Walla's Images of Life