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Screening culture, viewing politics : an ethnography of television, womanhood, and nation in postcolonial India

Author: Purnima Mankekar
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.
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Mankekar, Purnima, 1961-
Screening culture, viewing politics.
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)654352194
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Purnima Mankekar
ISBN: 0822323575 9780822323570 0822323907 9780822323907
OCLC Number: 123134617
Description: xiii, 429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Responsibility: Purnima Mankekar.

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