Freedom and destiny: gender, family and popular culture in India / (Record no. 145620)
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| fixed length control field | 00394nam a2200133Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0195679911 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.0954 |
| Item number | UBE/F |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Uberoi, Patricia |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Freedom and destiny: gender, family and popular culture in India / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Patricia Uberoi |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2006. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 309 p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. 'Beautyfull wife, denger life' : engaging with popular culture. I.A moving message. 'Beautyfull wife, denger life' ; II. Reading popular culture. The concept of popular culture. The semiotics of popular culture. Imagining the nation ; III. Gender and genre. Visual culture and the controlling 'gaze'. Reading the romance. Gender and resistance ; IV. Rethinking the family. The kinship map of India. The Indian joint family. Arranged marriage. Dowry and brideprice. The limits of family change. The moral economy of the Indian Family ; V. Dharma and desire, freedom, and destiny --<br/><br/>2. Feminine identity and national ethos in calendar art. I. Woman/goddess/nation : a contemporary controversy ; II. Defining calendar art ; III. Ravi Varma and the invention of calendar art ; IV. Deciphering the archive : gender and calendar art. Objects of desire/commodities on sale. Icons of nation. Plurality and difference ; V. Trajectories of change? <br/><br/>3. 'Baby' icons : forms and figures of a new generation. I. Introduction ; II. Envisioning childhood ; III. South Asian childhoods. Child socialization as pathology. Childhood between tradition and modernity. Cosmologies of childhood ; IV. Representing the child. God-baby. Welcome-baby. Citizen-baby. Hero-baby. Customized-baby --<br/><br/>4. Desire and destiny : rescripting the man-woman relationship in popular cinema. I. Prologue: On a personal note ; II. The body language of popular cinema ; III. The problematics of romance. Dharma and desire. Freedom and destiny ; IV. A paradigm of desire. Jabba and Bhoothnath. Chhote Sarkar and the courtesan. Chhoti Bahu and Chhote Sarkar. Bhoothnath and Chhoti Bahu ; V. Happy and unhappy endings. <br/><br/>5. Imagining the family : an ethnography of viewing Hum Aapke Hain Koun ...! I. What makes a 'clean' movie? The lack of 'vulgarity'. The display of affluence. The spirit of 'sacrifice'. The family as 'tradition' ; II. The constitution of the ideal Indian family. The ideal of the joint family. Affinity as a value. The truth-telling voice ; III. The pleasures of viewing : voyeurism, narcissism, and a happy ending ; IV. The emblematic family --<br/><br/>6. The diaspora comes home : discipling desire in DDLJ. I. Prologue ; II. Indianness : at home and abroad ; III. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ; IV. Romance, Indian style ; V. The tyranny of 'tradition' ; VI. Pardes : reinstituting the contradiction of India and the West ; VII. 'American dreams, Indian soul' ; VIII. Indian dream, transnational location. <br/><br/>7. Learning to 'adjust' : the dynamics of post-marital romance. I. Domesticating romance fiction ; II. Woman's era ; III. Twenty tales of true romance. Tales of courtship. Tales of conjugal love. Sources of marital tension. Mediation. Resolution ; IV. True-life tales of marital breakdown ; V. Prescription for a happy marriage ; VI. Conclusion --<br/><br/>8. Scripting romance? : tribulations of courtship in popular fiction. I. Introduction: Constructing the problematic ; II. Narrative trajectories. Making 'love' respectable. Putting 'love' into arranged marriage : III. Conclusion. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | General Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 28/08/2016 | 306.0954 UBE/F | P00247 | 15/07/2018 | 15/07/2018 | General Books |