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| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Uberoi, Patricia. Freedom and destiny. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 (OCoLC)655101524 |
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| 材料类型: | 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Patricia Uberoi |
| ISBN: | 9780195679915 0195679911 |
| OCLC号码: | 70133287 |
| 描述: | xix, 309 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm. |
| 内容: | 1. 'Beautyfull wife, denger life' : engaging with popular culture -- A moving message -- 'Beautyfull wife, denger life' -- Reading popular culture -- The concept of popular culture -- The semiotics of popular culture -- Imagining the nation -- Gender and genre -- Visual culture and the controlling 'gaze' -- Reading the romance -- Gender and resistance -- Rethinking the family -- The kinship map of India -- The Indian joint family -- Arranged marriage -- Dowry and brideprice -- The limits of family change -- The moral economy of the Indian Family -- Dharma and desire, freedom, and destiny -- 2. Feminine identity and national ethos in calendar art -- Woman/goddess/nation : a contemporary controversy -- Defining calendar art -- Ravi Varma and the invention of calendar art -- Deciphering the archive : gender and calendar art -- Objects of desire/commodities on sale -- Icons of nation -- Plurality and difference -- Trajectories of change? -- 3. 'Baby' icons : forms and figures of a new generation -- Introduction -- Envisioning childhood -- South Asian childhoods -- Child socialization as pathology -- Childhood between tradition and modernity -- Cosmologies of childhood -- Representing the child -- God-baby -- Welcome-baby -- Citizen-baby -- Hero-baby -- Customized-baby -- 4. Desire and destiny : rescripting the man-woman relationship in popular cinema -- Prologue : on a personal note -- The body language of popular cinema -- The problematics of romance -- Dharma and desire -- Freedom and destiny -- A paradigm of desire -- Jabba and Bhoothnath -- Chhote Sarkar and the courtesan -- Chhoti Bahu and Chhote Sarkar Bhoothnath and Chhoti Bahu -- Happy and unhappy endings -- 5. Imagining the family : an ethnography of viewing Hum Aapke Hain Koun ...! -- What makes a 'clean' movie? -- The lack of 'vulgarity' -- The display of affluence -- The spirit of 'sacrifice' -- The family as 'tradition' -- The constitution of the ideal Indian family -- The ideal of the joint family -- Affinity as a value -- The truth-telling voice -- The pleasures of viewing : voyeurism, narcissism, and a happy ending -- The emblematic family -- 6. The diaspora comes home : discipling desire in DDLJ -- Prologue -- Indianness : at home and abroad -- Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge -- Romance, Indian style -- The tyranny of 'tradition' -- Pardes : reinstituting the contradiction of India and the West -- 'American dreams, Indian soul' -- Indian dream, transnational location -- 7. Learning to 'adjust' : the dynamics of post-marital romance -- Domesticating romance fiction -- Woman's era -- Twenty tales of true romance -- Tales of courtship -- Tales of conjugal love -- Sources of marital tension -- Mediation -- Resolution -- True-life tales of marital breakdown -- Prescription for a happy marriage -- Conclusion -- 8. Scripting romance? Tribulations of courtship in popular fiction -- Introduction : constructing the problematic -- Narrative trajectories -- Making 'love' respectable -- Putting 'love' into arranged marriage -- Conclusion. |
| 责任: | Patricia Uberoi. |
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