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Transnational television, cultural identity and change : when STAR came to India / Melissa Butcher.
Lippincott Library HE8700.9.I5 B87 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butcher, Melissa, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting--India.
- Television broadcasting.
- Group identity.
- Youth.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
- India.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects--India.
- Youth--India--Attitudes.
- Youth--India--Interviews.
- Social change--India.
- Social change.
- Group identity--India.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.
- Contents:
- The Research Question 16
- Constructing Cultural Space 18
- Cultural Strategies of Identity 28
- The Study 35
- Chapter 2 Redefining Indian Television 49
- The Post-Independence Era 49
- The Impact of the Image 58
- The Post-liberalisation Era 62
- Redefining the Image of India 77
- Chapter 3 Cultural Strategies of Identity 87
- The Modern Individual 87
- Cultural Strategies of Identity 93
- Redefining Tradition 97
- Chapter 4 Cultural Change in India 111
- Redefining Indianness 111
- The Continuity and Disjunction of Indian Identity 122
- Contesting Indian Identity in a Global World 139
- Chapter 5 Mediating Identity: Transnational Television and Cultural Change 147
- Transnational Media Corporation Practice in a Global Era 148
- Active Audiences and the Construction of Meaning 152
- The Construction of the Local 156
- The Impact of Television on Cultural Change in India 163
- Chapter 6 Shifting Cultural Space and the Formation of New Identities 181
- The Delineation of Space 181
- Boundaries and Limit Images 184
- The Compression of Space 189
- The Generation of Multiple Identities 195
- Orientation at the Point of Comfort 201
- Chapter 7 Cleaving India: New Oppositions and Familiarities 209
- Space Binding: The Construction of an Immoral West 209
- Space Dislocation: The Creation of New Familiarities 214
- The 'Chutneyfication of Identity' 227
- Chapter 8 India According to Miss World 239
- Identity and the Body 240
- Miss World 1996 245
- A Transgressive Ms 250
- Chapter 9 The Dimensions of Cultural Change 265
- Describing Cultural Change 266
- The Changing Experience of Space 270
- The Impact of Transnational Television 273
- Controlling the Direction of Change 276
- Contesting the Global/the Local 284
- Between Release and Restraint: The Formation of New Subjectivity in India 286
- Appendix I Summary of Focus Groups 293
- Appendix II First and Second Generation Interviewees 298.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [304]-314) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761997660
- 0761997679
- 8178292491
- 8178292505
- OCLC:
- 51817603
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