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Media, gender, and popular culture in India : tracking change and continuity / Sanjukta Dasgupta, Dipankar Sinha, and Sudeshna Chakravarti

Dasgupta, Sanjukta,i1952- [Verfasser] ; Sinha, Dipankar,i1962- ; Cakrabartī, Sudeshṇā

New Delhi, India [u.a.] : SAGE Publications, 2012

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (217 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

81-321-0927-9 ; 978-81-321-0927-3 ; 978-81-321-0729-3

In contemporary India, as one side of the coin celebrates traditional stereotypes, the other side subverts the same image, sometimes subtly, but often radically. The push and pulls of these factors are changing the cultural landscape of India decisively. This volume critiques media representations of popular culture and gender since the 1950s and tracks the changes that have taken place in Indian society. The authors give us incisive analyses of these transformations, represented through the candid lens of the camera in films, television, advertisements and magazines, all of which focus on gen.