Popular Culture In A Globalised India

Author : K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134023066

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Popular Culture in a Globalised India by K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally resonant cultural resources. This book explores India’s rich popular culture. Chapters provide illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. Structured thematically and drawing on a broad range of academic disciplines, the book deals with critical issues including: - Film, television and TV soaps - Folk theatre, Mahabharata-Ramayana ,myths, performance, ideology and religious nationalism - Music, dance and fashion - Comics, cartoons, photographs, posters and advertising - Cyberculture and the software industry - Indian feminisms - Sports and tourism - Food culture Offering comprehensive coverage of the emerging discipline of popular culture in India, this book is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies.

Author : K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134023073

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Popular Culture in a Globalised India by K. Moti Gokulsing,Wimal Dissanayake Pdf

This book explores India’s rich popular culture and provides illuminating insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political realities of contemporary globalised India. It is essential reading for courses on Indian popular culture and a useful resource for more general courses in the field of cultural studies, media studies, history, literary studies and communication studies.

Author : Michael Curtin,Hemant Shah
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252076909

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Reorienting Global Communication by Michael Curtin,Hemant Shah Pdf

Emphasizing the global nature of Indian and Chinese film, television, and digital media, Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders provides a diverse mix of alternative perspectives that collectively shift the discussion of media globalization away from Hollywood and New York. Linked by a shared history of colonialism, state socialism, large diasporas, and recent market liberalization, India and China are poised to become twenty-first-century world powers. While both enjoy a rich ensemble of religious iconography, legends, and folk traditions, Indian and Chinese producers and consumers are today challenged to find modes of expression that are culturally authentic and commercially viable in an increasingly globalized media environment. Essays cover topics such as the influence of transnational Indian families on the narrative elements of Bollywood productions, the rise of made-in-China blockbusters, the development of pan-Asian cinema, and migrants' use of the Internet to maintain connections with their homelands. Contributors are Michael Curtin, Chua Beng Huat, Shanti Kumar, Chin-Chuan Lee, Madhavi Mallapragada, Divya C. McMillin, Sreya Mitra, Sujata Moorti, Zhongdang Pan, Aswin Punathambekar, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Hemant Shah, Lakshmi Srinivas, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, and Yuezhi Zhao.

Author : Asha Kasbekar Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851096411

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Pop Culture India! by Asha Kasbekar Ph.D. Pdf

The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume. Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history. How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!

Author : Biswarup Sen
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Pop culture in the contemporary world
ISBN : 8180280276

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Of the People by Biswarup Sen Pdf

Author : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857288974

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Bollywood and Globalization by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande Pdf

This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.

Author : Asha Kasbekar
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851096367

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Pop Culture India! by Asha Kasbekar Pdf

Follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history.

Author : Beng Huat Chua
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888139033

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Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture by Beng Huat Chua Pdf

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of pan-Asian Chineseness, Chua Beng Huat provides detailed analysis of the fragmented reception process of transcultural audiences and the processes of audiences’ formation and exercise of consumer power and engagement with national politics. In an era where exercise of military power is increasingly restrained, pop culture has become an important component of soft power diplomacy and transcultural collaborations in a region that is still haunted by colonization and violence. The author notes that the aspirations behind national governments' efforts to use popular culture is limited by the fragmented nature of audiences who respond differently to the same products; by the danger of backlash from other members of the importing country's population that do not consume the popular culture products in question; and by the efforts of the primary consuming country, the People's Republic of China to shape products through co-production strategies and other indirect modes of intervention.

Author : William M. Tsutsui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0924304626

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Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization by William M. Tsutsui Pdf

Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization is the only concise overview of Japan's phenomenal impact on world pop culture available in English. Surveying Japanese forms from anime (animation) and manga (comic books) to monster movies and Hello Kitty products, this volume is an accessible introduction to Japan's pop creativity and its appeal worldwide. Written in an accessible style and illustrated with more than 20 photographs, Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization combines a historical approach to the evolution and diffusion of Japanese pop with interdisciplinary perspectives from anthropology, literary studies, political science, and the visual arts. Includes a useful glossary of terms and a bibliography of recommended readings.

Author : Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari Pandharipande
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780857287823

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Bollywood and Globalization by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari Pandharipande Pdf

This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.

Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317226123

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Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India by Sikata Banerjee Pdf

Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics. This book unpacks a particular gendered vision of nation in the modern Indian context by drawing on popular films. This muscular nationalism is an intersection of a specific vision of masculinity with the political doctrine of nationalism. The idea of nation is animated by an idea of manhood associated with martial prowess, muscular strength and toughness, but coupled with the image and construct of virtuous woman – a gendered binary of martial man and chaste woman. The author skilfully and convincingly draws together issues of political economy, including globalization and neoliberalism with majoritarian politics and popular culture, thus showing how disparate strands intersect and build on each other. Using interpretive methodologies and popular media, the book presents new interpretations of Bollywood films through the lenses of gender, masculinity and nationalism. It will be of interest to scholars of South Asian politics and culture, in particular Indian nationalism, popular culture, media and gender studies.

Author : John A Lent,Lorna Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136300981

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Asian Popular Culture in Transition by John A Lent,Lorna Fitzsimmons Pdf

Asian Popular Culture in Transition examines contemporary consumption practices in South Korea, China, India, and Japan, and both updates and extends popular culture studies of the region. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this collection of essays explores how recent advances and shifts in information technologies and globalization have impacted cultural markets, fashion, the digital generation, mobile culture, femininity, matrimonial advertising, and a film actress’ image and performance. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources and methods including historical research, content analysis, anthropological observation, textual analyses, and interviews, Asian Popular Culture in Transition makes a significant contribution to this growing area of research. Given its broad range of countries, theories, and approaches, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and gender studies.

Author : Yale H. Ferguson,Richard W. Mansbach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136327032

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Globalization by Yale H. Ferguson,Richard W. Mansbach Pdf

Written by two leading scholars of global politics, Globalization: the return of borders to a borderless world? is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains globalization and its origins, and examines its future in light of key recent political and global trends and events. The text: identifies the different political, economic, technological, and cultural meanings of globalization examines its historical origins from the ancient past through the Cold War and into the twenty-first century describes the multiple attributes and consequences of globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state discusses recent trends such as the increased use of social media and events like the Arab Spring assesses the normative implications of globalization analyzes the challenges to globalization posed by contemporary events such as the global financial crisis. This book will be essential reading for all students of globalization, and will be of great interest to students of global politics and global governance.

Author : Carmen Escobedo de Tapia,Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527558663

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Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India by Carmen Escobedo de Tapia,Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez Pdf

This volume offers a number of images of contemporary India where glocalization is undoubtedly present. The twelve chapters included here provide different perspectives on the relationship between the corporeal and the spiritual, highlighting the union of both soul and body, which has been present from the very beginning of the Indian civilization. This volume offers clues to understand the differences and similarities that characterise the East-West encounter through artistic representations in the era of globalisation. It also enhances the importance of re-inscribing the fusion of the spiritual and the corporeal into the academic research agenda. In Western theory, the body has been arguably dismembered and separated from the spiritual. As such, this text opens up a range of possibilities to tackle and debunk the dualism of both the corporeal and the spiritual suggesting a rupture of the “logic” of binary thinking. The contributors specifically focus on Indian culture and analyse how we can empirically and theoretically reconcile mind and body in order to promote active and reciprocal exchanges among educators, students, researchers, social activists, and those professionally and spiritually engaged with Indian studies.

Author : Kathleen Lebesco,Peter Naccarato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474296229

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture by Kathleen Lebesco,Peter Naccarato Pdf

The influence of food has grown rapidly as it has become more and more intertwined with popular culture in recent decades. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture offers an authoritative, comprehensive overview of and introduction to this growing field of research. Bringing together over 20 original essays from leading experts, including Amy Bentley, Deborah Lupton, Fabio Parasecoli, and Isabelle de Solier, its impressive breadth and depth serves to define the field of food and popular culture. Divided into four parts, the book covers: - Media and Communication; including film, television, print media, the Internet, and emerging media - Material Cultures of Eating; including eating across the lifespan, home cooking, food retail, restaurants, and street food - Aesthetics of Food; including urban landscapes, museums, visual and performance arts - Socio-Political Considerations; including popular discourses around food science, waste, nutrition, ethical eating, and food advocacy Each chapter outlines key theories and existing areas of research whilst providing historical context and considering possible future developments. The Editors' Introduction by Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, ensures cohesion and accessibility throughout. A truly interdisciplinary, ground-breaking resource, this book makes an invaluable contribution to the study of food and popular culture. It will be an essential reference work for students, researchers and scholars in food studies, film and media studies, communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, and American studies.