ISBN:
9783319978673
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XV, 88 p. 3 illus, online resource)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Comedy
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kay, Kavyta New Indian Nuttahs
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Popular Culture
;
Cultural policy
;
Culture-Study and teaching
;
Ethnology-Asia
;
Cultural policy
;
Culture-Study and teaching
;
Ethnology-Asia
;
Popular Culture
;
Comedy.
;
Indien
;
Massenmedien
;
Comedy
;
Kulturkritik
;
Großbritannien
;
Südasiaten
;
Comedy
;
Nordamerika
;
Südasiaten
;
Comedy
Abstract:
This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India. It provides a unique analysis into the growing phenomenon of internet comedy and into a dimension of Indian popular culture which has long been dominated by the traditional film and television industries. Through a mixture of close textual readings of online comedy videos and interviews with content creators and consumers in India, this book provides a fresh perspective on comedy studies in its approach to a global South context from a sociocultural perspective. As a protean form of new media, this has opened up new avenues of articulation, identification and disidentification and as such, this book makes a further contribution to South Asian, communication, media & cultural studies
Abstract:
1. 'New’ India and the nuttahs -- 2. Riffing India Comedy, Identity, and Censorship -- 3. Women in internet comedy -- 4. Down to brown: A footnote on British Asian and South Asian American comedy -- 5. The currency of comedy
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-97867-3
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97867-3
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