Screening culture, viewing politics: an ethnography of television, womanhood, and nation in postcolonial India/ Purnima Mankekar.
Material type: TextPublication details: Durham: Duke University Press, 1999Description: xiii, 429 p. ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780822323907Subject(s): Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- India | Television programs -- India | Television in community development -- India | Television and women -- India | Television in politics -- IndiaDDC classification: 302.23450954Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University | 302.23450954 MAN/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 50096 |
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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