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9780822323907

Screening Culture, Viewing Politics

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822323907

  • ISBN10:

    0822323907

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-11-01
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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"Purnima Mankekar has crafted a compelling and richly informed account of one of the most difficult of anthropological topics: the power of television to turn local and gendered intimacies into--literally--gripping allegories of national identity. Fusing scholarship and elegance in an exceptionally accessible narrative, she attends to audiences as well as texts. In this way, she provides an exemplary demonstration of how superb ethnography can best disentangle the actual complexities behind the usual cant about modernity, nationalism, and the media."--Michael Herzfeld, author of "Portrait of a Greek Imagination"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Culture Wars
Fields of Power: The National Television Family
National Television and the "Viewing Family"
"Women-Oriented" Narratives and the New Indian Woman
Engendering Communities
Mediating Modernities: The Ramayan and the Creation of Community and Nation
Television Tales, National Narratives, and a Woman's Rage: Multiple Interpretations of Draupadi's "Disrobing"
Technologies of Violence
"Air Force Women Don't Cry": Militaristic Nationalism and Representations of Gender
Popular Narrative, the Politics of Location, and Memory
Epilogue: Sky Wars
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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