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Author:   Aswin Punathambekar (University of Michigan, USA) ,  Shanti Kumar (University of Texas, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415725460

ISBN 10:   0415725461
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   24 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction: Television at large Aswin Punathambekar and Shanti Kumar 1. Changing with The Times of India (Bangalore): remaking a post-political media field Sahana Udupa and Paula Chakravartty 2. At the limits of discourse: political talk in drag on Late Night Show with Begum Nawazish Ali Mobina Hashmi 3. The fatal snare of proximity: live television, new media and the witnessing of the Mumbai attacks Sangeet Kumar 4. Mixed signals: MTV Desi, South Asian American audiences and the discourse of ethnic television Madhavi Mallapragada 5. ‘The show of the millennium’: screening the big-money quiz show and the Bollywood superstar Sreya Mitra 6. Beyond television studies John Hutnyk 7. Mapping India’s television landscape: constitutive dimensions and emerging issues Kalyani Chadha and Anandam Kavoori 8. Television and embodiment: a speculative essay Purnima Mankekar 9. Ravana’s airforce: a report on the state of Indian television Nalin Mehta 10. Watching Barkha Dutt: turning on the news in television studies Radhika Parameswaran 11. A reflexive turn in television studies? Conjectures from South Asia Abhijit Roy

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Aswin Punathambekar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and faculty affiliate at the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (2013) and co-editor of Global Bollywood (2008). Shanti Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Asian Studies, the Center for Asian-American Studies and the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas-Austin, USA. He is the author of Gandhi Meets Primetime: Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television (2006) and co-editor of Planet TV (2003).

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