Image Journeys: Audio-Visual Media and Cultural Change in India
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks; London: Sage (1999), 338 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 311-325, index
ISBN 0-7619-9326-6 (pbk USA); 81-7036-791-3 (pbk India)
Signature commbox: 317:10-Brosius
"This volume examines the influence of audio-visual media in cultural change in India. The essays focus on: the dynamics of network change; the relationships between image and viewer; and the journey of images between points of reading in contemporary India that are mediated through television, cinema, video and the internet." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Image Journeys / Christiane Brosius and Melissa Butcher, 11
2 Transnational Class, Erotic Arcadia and Commercial Utopia in Hindi Films / Ronald Inden, 41
3 Doordarshan: Representing the Nation's State / Britta Ohm, 69
4 Is this the Real Thing? Packaging Cultural Nationalism / Christiane Brosius, 99
5 Bordering Realism: The Aesthetics of Sai Baba's Mediated Universe / Sophie Hawkins, 139
6 Parallel Texts: The Body and Television in India / Melissa Butcher, 165
7 Bachchan-alias: The Many Faces of a Film Icon / Lalit Vachani, 199
8 The Troubled Existence of Sex and Sexuality: Feminists Engage with Censorship / Shohini Ghosh, 233
9 Dish is Life: Cable Operators and the Neighbourhood / Samina Mishra, 261
10 Vision Mixing: Marriage-Video-Film and the Video-Walla's Images of Life / Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 279
2 Transnational Class, Erotic Arcadia and Commercial Utopia in Hindi Films / Ronald Inden, 41
3 Doordarshan: Representing the Nation's State / Britta Ohm, 69
4 Is this the Real Thing? Packaging Cultural Nationalism / Christiane Brosius, 99
5 Bordering Realism: The Aesthetics of Sai Baba's Mediated Universe / Sophie Hawkins, 139
6 Parallel Texts: The Body and Television in India / Melissa Butcher, 165
7 Bachchan-alias: The Many Faces of a Film Icon / Lalit Vachani, 199
8 The Troubled Existence of Sex and Sexuality: Feminists Engage with Censorship / Shohini Ghosh, 233
9 Dish is Life: Cable Operators and the Neighbourhood / Samina Mishra, 261
10 Vision Mixing: Marriage-Video-Film and the Video-Walla's Images of Life / Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 279
