India's State-run Media

Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

India's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together two neglected areas of research in media studies in India - the intertwined genealogies of sovereignty, public, religion, and nation in radio and television, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of broadcasting into a single analytic inquiry. It argues that the spatiotemporalities of broadcasting and the inter-relationships among the public, religion, and nation can be traced to an organizing concept that shaped India's late colonial and postcolonial histories - sovereignty. The book contends that studies of television have glossed over the meanings, experiences, and practices of the religious in televisual narratives and viewers' interpretations of television programs. Drawing on the philosophical writings of Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, connecting their ideas with media, cultural, and religious studies, it examines cultural discourses, power relations, repertoire of meanings, social events, etc. in broadcasting in late colonial and postcolonial India.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-09
Mått:156 x 236 x 19 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108481700

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Sanjay Asthana teaches at the School of Journalism and Strategic Media in Middle Tennessee State University. His areas of interest are media and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, visual communication, and international and global communication. He is the author of Youth Media Imaginaries from Around the World (2012), and has co-authored Palestinian Youth Media and the Pedagogies of Estrangement (2016).

Recensioner i media

'This ambitious and wide-ranging book uses the form and force of state-run media (radio and television as well as music broadcasts) in India, to stage a broader argument about critical and postcolonial media studies, drawing on Foucault and Ricoeur. It will be of great interest to media scholars, postcolonial theorists and South Asia experts.' Arjun Appadurai, New York University

Innehållsförteckning

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Broadcasting, spatiotemporalities, and power; 2. Doordarshan, literary drama, and narrative identity; 3. Televisual representations of socio-spatial conflicts, and the religious-secular imaginaries; 4. Patriotism and its avatars: tracking the national-global dialectic in music videos and television commercials; 5. Remembering Doordarshan: figurations of memories and nostalgia on Blogs, YouTube, and in oral interviews; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.