Screening Culture, Viewing Politics. An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India.
United States: Duke University Press, 1999. First Edition. Stock ID #176543 In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community, and nation, and the crucial role it has played in the realignment of class, caste, consumption, religion, and politics. When referring to this item please quote stockid 176543.
Black and white illustrations, xiii + 429pp, index, bibliography, notes, paperback, prior owners name on front free endpaper, pencil markings throughout text, good condition.
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