num_pages: 244
description: This book analyses how forms of public culture in India―cinema, the comic book, the museum and the tourist brochure―generate social meanings. It ′reads′ the strategies through which they reflect, reinforce and at times contest existing power relations within society. Using a range of theories and approaches, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how a cultural form or genre encodes narratives of power, and works to marginalize certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledge while valorizing others.
language: English
title: Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics
titlecomplete: Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics
publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd