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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics : An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (445 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822378242
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Screening Culture, Viewing PoliticsDDC classification:
  • 302.23/45/0954
LOC classification:
  • HE8700
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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