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

Name: Screening Culture, Viewing Politics An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
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ISBN: 9780822323907

ISBN-10: 0822323907

ISBN-13: 9780822323907

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Authors: Purnima Mankekar

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List price: $31.95
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 12/10/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Culture Wars



Fields of Power: The National Television Family



National Television and the "Viewing Family"



"Women-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman



Engendering Communities



Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation



Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman's Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi's "Disrobing"



Technologies of Violence



"Air Force Women Don't Cry": Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender



Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory


Epilogue: Sky Wars


Notes


Bibliography


Index