ISBN:
0415476674
,
0415476666
,
9780415476676
,
9780415476669
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 285 p)
,
ill., map
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Popular Culture in a Globalised India
DDC:
306.0954
Keywords:
Globalization Social aspects
;
Popular culture Social aspects
Abstract:
This book explores India's rich popular culture and provides illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. It is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Map of India; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on transliteration; Glossary and acronyms; Introduction; Part I Film-Television-TV Soaps-Indian Feminisms; 1 Local resistance to global Bangalore: Reading minority Indian cinema; 2 'Breaking news, Indian style': Politics, democracy and Indian news television; 3 Emancipation or anchored individualism?: Women and TV soaps in India; 4 Indian feminisms: Issues of sexuality and representation; Part II Folk Theatre-Myths Mahabharatha-Ramayana- Religious Nationalism
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Tragada Bhavaiya contribution to the making of Hindu identity in Saurastra6 The Mahabharata's imprint on contemporary literature and film; 7 India: Religious nationalism and changing profile of popular culture; Part III Music - Dance - Fashions; 8 Private music: Individualism, authenticity and genre boundaries in the Bombay music industry; 9 Indian popular culture and its 'others': Bollywood dance and anti-nautch in twenty-first-century global India; 10 From zenana to cinema: The impact of royal aesthetics on Bollywood film; Part IV Comics/Cartoons- hotographs/Posters-Advertising
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Gods, kings and local Telugu guys: Competing visions of the heroic in Indian comic books12 The gated romance of 'India Shining': Visualizing urban lifestyle in advertisement of residential housing development; 13 Advertising in a globalised India; Part V Cyberculture - the software industry; 14 India goes to the blogs: Cyberspace, identity, community; 15 The Indian software industry: Cultural factors underpinning its evolution; Part VI Sports - tourism; 16 Opiate of the masses or one in a billion: Trying to unravel the Indian sporting mystery
Description / Table of Contents:
17 Going places: Popular tourism writing in IndiaPart VII Food culture; 18 The discreet charm of Indian street food; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-281) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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