South Asian media cultures
Subtitle: audiences, representations, contexts
By: edited by Shakuntala Banaji.
Contributors: Banaji, Shakuntala, 1971-
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843318422; 9780857289551
Subjects: Mass media -- Social aspects -- South Asia; Mass media -- Political aspects -- South Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Introduction / Shakuntala Banaji; title: Inspired by the forbidden screen:  Cultural movements and Hindi commercial cinema in North-East India / Daisy Hasan; title: Adverts make me want to break the television:  Children's responses to the audiovisual media environment in India / Shakuntala Banaji; title: Urdu for image: Understanding Bangladeshi cinema through its theatres / Lotte Hoek; title: Musical media, state politics and cosmopolitanism in Nepal's popular music, 1950-2008 / Paul Greene; title: Private satellite television and the politics of moderate Islam in contemporary Pakistan / Tahir Naqvi; title: Forgetting to remember:  The privatisation of the public, the economisation of Hindutva,  and the medialisation of genocide on Indian TV / Britta Ohm; title: Mythic realism and the hegemonic form:  Hindi popular cinema and Muslim representation / Noorel Mecklai; title: A peace of soap:  Representations of peace and conflict in popular teledramas in Sri Lanka / Neluka Silva; title: Reel life versus real life:  Perceptions of women in the Pakistani film industry / Irna Qureshi; title: Through the lens of a branded criminal / Rashmi Sawhney; title: Pakistani students' uses of new media to construct a narrative of dissent / Saman Talib; title: Expanding the art of the possible:  Leveraging citizen journalism and User Generated Content (USG) for peace in Sri Lanka / Sanjana Hattotuwa; title: Conclusion / Shakuntala Banaji.