No Limits (Paperback)
Media Studies from India
Published on 25. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-0-19-012472-4 (ISBN)
Description
ndia after globalization is an increasingly mediatized society. Today, media experiences, desires, dream worlds, and fears have enveloped our time with force that was unimagined before. The blurring of the private and the public is now dramatically visible. The 'power of media' is a core explanatory category in public and academic common sense. No Limits maps the emergence of this mediatized world, and reflects on its wideranging consequences.
Reviews / Votes
Bringing together both notabe names in the field and emergent ones...No Lmits marks India's move from a major point of media exchange to a central node of media scholarship as well. [it is] an exciting and innovative volume, where content and context, audience and institution are as adjacent analyticaly as they are in actuality"Toby Miller, is Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, Cuajimalpa, and Professor in Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London.
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Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Edition type
Revised edition
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
ISBN-13
978-0-19-012472-4 (9780190124724)
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Persons
Ravi Sundaram (ed.) is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, new Delhi and co-initiator of the Sarai programme.
Content
- The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena 21
- Afterword: The Bollywoodization Argument- Ten Years On 43Ashish Rajadhyaksha
- 2. Sensuous Encounters: Law, Affect, and the Media Event 47
- Lawrence Liang
- 3. The Inner and Outer Worlds of Emergent Television Cultures 70
- Shohini Ghosh
- II CIRCULATION
- 4. Mission, Money, and Machinery: Indian Newspapers in the Twentieth Century 95 Robin Jeffrey
- 5. Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom 121
- Ravi Sundaram
- 6. Figures of Transit: Tracing a Century of Hollywood in India 141
- Nitin Govil
- III PUBLICS
- 7. Creating Cinema's Reading Publics: The Emergence of Film Journalism in Bombay 165
- Debashree Mukherjee
- 8. Notes on Contemporary Film Experience: 'Bollywood', Genre Diversity, and Video Circuits 199
- Ravi S. Vasudevan
- 9. Whistling Fans: Reflections on the Sociology, Politics, and Performativity of an Excessively Active Audience 224
- S.V. Srinivas
- 10. Unimaginable Communities: Television, Globalization, and National Identities in Postcolonial India 256
- Shanti Kumar
- 11. The Imagined Reign of the Iron Lecturer: Village Broadcasting in Colonial India 277
- Joselyn Zivin
- 12. The 'Terrorist' and the Screen: Afterimages of the Batla House 'Encounter' 300
- Shuddhabrata Sengupta
- IV PRODUCTION
- 13. Evolution of an Early Media Enterprise: The Gramophone Company in India, 1898-1912 327
- Vibodh Parthasarathi
- 14. Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture to the Digital Era 356
- Peter Manuel
- 15. Film Stardom after Liveness 381