Television, ethnicity, and cultural change / Marie Gillespie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gillespie, Marie, 1953-

Series:

Comedia.

Comedia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting--Great Britain.

Television broadcasting.

Minority television viewers--Great Britain.

Minority television viewers.

East Indians--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

East Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change examines how TV and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions within the 'South Asian' diaspora, and how they are also catalysing cultural change in this local community.Marie Gille

Contents:

""Preliminaries""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Southall Chota Punjab west London""; ""2 Living fieldwork writing ethnography""; ""3 Local uses of the media Negotiating culture and identity""; ""4 Coming of age in Southall TV news talk""; ""5 Neighbours and gossip: Kinship, courtship and community""; ""6 Cool bodies: TV ad talk""; ""Conclusion""; ""Appendix Southall Youth Survey 1989 1990""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-230) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-86292-X

1-134-86293-8

1-4237-9787-6

1-280-53933-X

9786610539338

0-203-13399-4

9780203133996

OCLC:

50648750