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Author(s): K. Moti Gokulsing
ISBN(s): 9780203884065, 020388406X
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Year: 2009
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ISBN 10: 020388406X

ISBN 13: 9780203884065

Author: K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake

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.

Table of contents:

PART I Film–Television–TV Soaps–Indian Feminisms

1 Local resistance to global Bangalore: reading minority Indian cinema

2 ‘Breaking news, Indian style’: politics, democracy and Indian news television

3 Emancipation or anchored individualism?: women and TV soaps in India

4 Indian feminisms: issues of sexuality and representation

PART II Folk Theatre–Myths Mahabharatha–Ramayana– Religious Nationalism

5 The Tragada Bhavaiya contribution to the making of Hindu identity in Saurastra

6 The Mahabharata’s imprint on contemporary literature and film

7 India: religious nationalism and changing profile of popular culture

PART III Music – Dance – Fashions

8 Private music: individualism, authenticity and genre boundaries in the Bombay music industry

9 Indian popular culture and its ‘others’: bollywood dance and anti-nautch in twenty-first-century global India

10 From zenana to cinema: the impact of royal aesthetics on Bollywood film

PART IV Comics/Cartoons–Photographs/ Posters–Advertising

11 Gods, kings and local Telugu guys: competing visions of the heroic in Indian comic books

12 The gated romance of ‘India Shining’: visualizing urban lifestyle in advertisement of residential housing development

13 Advertising in a globalised India

PART V Cyberculture – the software industry

14 India goes to the blogs: cyberspace, identity, community

15 The Indian software industry: cultural factors underpinning its evolution

PART VI Sports – tourism

16 Opiate of the masses or one in a billion: trying to unravel the Indian sporting mystery

17 Going places: popular tourism writing in India

PART VII Food culture

18 The discreet charm of Indian street food

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