India''s State-Run Media - Broadcasting, Power, and Narrative

Informationen zum Autor 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). Zusammenfassung Drawing on the philosophical writings of Ricoeur and Foucault, connecting their ideas with media, cultural, and religious studies, the book examines cultural discourses, power relations, repertoire of meanings, and social events in broadcasting in late colonial and postcolonial India. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Sanjay Asthana, Sanjay (Middle Tennessee State University Asthana, Sanjay (Middle Tennessee State University) Asthana, Asthana Sanjay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781108481700
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48170-0
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, India, Politics & government, Politics and government