Purnima Mankekar

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics

An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

"In India, where nothing stands still, least of all, tradition, it is remarkable how the unwavering eye of Purnima Mankekar has studied the ceaseless working and reworking of the gendered anxieties of a nationalized, post-colonial, febrile middle under the flickering light of Doordharshan--India's state run television. "Screening Culture, Viewing Politics" is a must for anyone interested in culture in the broadest and most fecund sense of that term."--E. Valentine Daniel, author of "Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9780822323570
• ISBN-10: 0822323575
• Artikelnr.: 42989918

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
1. Culture Wars 1
Part 1: Fields of Power: The National Television Family
2. National Television and the “Viewing Family” 45
3. “Women-Oriented” Narratives and the New Indian Woman 104
Part II: Engendering Communities
4. Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and
Nation 165
5. Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman’s Rage: Multiple
Interpretations of Draupadi’s “Disrobing” 224
Part III: Technologies of Violence
6. “Air Force Women Don’t Cry”: Militaristic Nationalism and
Representations of Gender 259
7. Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory 289
Epilogue: Sky Wars 335
Notes 359
Bibliography 395
Index 417