Mankekar, Purnima.

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics : An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (445 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Culture Wars -- Part I. Fields of Power: The National Television Family -- Chapter 2. National Television and the "Viewing Family -- Chapter 3. "Women-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman -- Part II. Engendering Communities -- Chapter 4. Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation -- Chapter 5. Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman's Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi's "Disrobing -- Part III. Technologies of Violence -- Chapter 6. "Air Force Women Don't Cry": Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender -- Chapter 7. Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory -- Epilogue: Sky Wars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Television broadcasting-Social aspects-India.
Television programs-India.
Television in community development-India.
Television and women-India.
Television in politics-India.


Electronic books.

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