Screening culture, viewing politics: an ethnography of television, womanhood, and nation in postcolonial India/
Purnima Mankekar.
- Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
- xiii, 429 p. ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-415) and index.
Ch. 1. Culture Wars -- pt. I. Fields of Power: The National Television Family. Ch. 2. National Television and the "Viewing Family" Ch. 3. "Women-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman -- pt. II. Engendering Communities. Ch. 4. Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation. Ch. 5. Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman's Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi's "Disrobing" -- pt. III. Technologies of Violence. Ch. 6. "Air Force Women Don't Cry": Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender. Ch. 7. Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory -- Epilogue: Sky Wars.
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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.