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Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
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TelevisionGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies
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ISBN10: 0822323907
ISBN13: 9780822323907
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 10 1999
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.19 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780822323907
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 10 1999
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.28 Width: 6.19 Depth: 9.27
Language: English
In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, consumption, religion, and politics.
Mankekar examines both entertainment narratives and advertisements designed to convey particular ideas about the nation. Organizing her study around the recurring themes in these shows-Indian womanhood, family, community, constructions of historical memory, development, integration, and sometimes violence-Mankekar dissects both the messages televised and her New Delhi subjects' perceptions of and reactions to these messages. In the process, her ethnographic analysis reveals the texture of these women's daily lives, social relationships, and everyday practices. Throughout her study, Mankekar remains attentive to the tumultuous historical and political context in the midst of which these programs' integrationalist messages are transmitted, to the cultural diversity of the viewership, and to her own role as ethnographer. In an enlightening epilogue she describes the effect of satellite television and transnational programming to India in the 1990s.
Through its ethnographic and theoretical richness, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics forces a reexamination of the relationship between mass media, social life, and identity and nation formation in non-Western contexts. As such, it represents a major contribution to a number of fields, including media and communication studies, feminist studies, anthropology, South Asian studies, and cultural studies.
Through its ethnographic and theoretical richness, Screening Culture, Viewing Politics forces a reexamination of the relationship between mass media, social life, and identity and nation formation in non-Western contexts. As such, it represents a major contribution to a number of fields, including media and communication studies, feminist studies, anthropology, South Asian studies, and cultural studies.
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