John Hutnyk is the author of The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996), Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (2000); Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies (2004); Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics (2014); and, co-author, with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur, of Diaspora and Hybridity (2005). He presently works at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Contact at: JohnHutnyk@tdtu.edu.vn).

Hutnyk has written a book that keeps faith with the project of radical critique. Paying careful attention to relations between semiotic detail and socio-political context, he traverses a complex body of cultural production and cultural theory too often consigned to the margins. Global South Asia on Screen tests every term in its title, working through an array of films, TV series and other media with a forensic eye that disconcerts and excites. Hutnyk’s book challenges us to understand the reverb of colonial pasts and postcolonial critiques in networked, politically-narrowed presents

• Introduction: Snuff MovieChapter 1: Sexy Sammy and Red RosieChapter 2: Panoramas of the Electronic HearthChapter 3: The Hanging ChannelChapter 4: Mela: Two AugustsConclusion: Global SouthBibliographyIndex

John Hutnyk is the author of The Rumour of Calcutta: Tourism, Charity and the Poverty of Representation (1996), Critique of Exotica: Music, Politics and the Culture Industry (2000); Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies (2004); Pantomime Terror: Music and Politics (2014); and, co-author, with Virinder Kalra and Raminder Kaur, of Diaspora and Hybridity (2005). He presently works at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Contact at: JohnHutnyk@tdtu.edu.vn).

Hutnyk has written a book that keeps faith with the project of radical critique. Paying careful attention to relations between semiotic detail and socio-political context, he traverses a complex body of cultural production and cultural theory too often consigned to the margins. Global South Asia on Screen tests every term in its title, working through an array of films, TV series and other media with a forensic eye that disconcerts and excites. Hutnyk’s book challenges us to understand the reverb of colonial pasts and postcolonial critiques in networked, politically-narrowed presents

• Introduction: Snuff MovieChapter 1: Sexy Sammy and Red RosieChapter 2: Panoramas of the Electronic HearthChapter 3: The Hanging ChannelChapter 4: Mela: Two AugustsConclusion: Global SouthBibliographyIndex