Visual Cultures in India - Contesting the Site of Sights

This book unpacks the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India, offering a critical lens for navigating our image-saturated world. This edited collection explores how we experience visuals beyond just seeing, while examining their creation, display, and interpretation across media.

List of contents

Introduction
Arzuman Ara

Part I: Textuality and Materiality of Visual Cultures
Chapter 1. On Visual Cultures in India: A Keynote
Kailash C. Baral
Chapter 2. Scopic Borders: Of Frames, Horizons, Parerga and Paralipomena
Subir Dhar
Chapter 3. The Theatrical Tradition of Jatrapala as a Form of Visual Communication
Silpi Maitra
Chapter 4. Framing the Hyper-Local: Digital Visual Culture and Virtual Spaces
Hrishikesh Ingle
Part II: Representation and Visual Culture
Chapter 5. Visuals, Props, and Cultural Identity: A Reading of Select Assamese Films
Dwijen Sharma
Chapter 6. Representation of Muslim Women in Hindi Commercial Cinema: An Analysis of their Construct and Rendering in Visual Culture
Sonam Sultana Shah
Chapter 7. Representation of Women in the Film Posters of Bollywood
Arzuman Ara
Chapter 8. Gazing Identities: Visual Representation of the Nagas in the Hornbill Festival and Tourism Photography
Theyiesinuo Keditsu
Chapter 9. Towards a New Visual Myth: An Exploration of the Culturalscape of Assam in Advertisements
Saba Anish
Chapter 10. The Traditional Assamese Wedding: A Study on the Changing Aspects of Visual Culture
Jayashree Kalita
Part III: Visual Culture: Semiotics and Discourse
Chapter 11. 'Present Shock' and the Visual Realms of Singular Immensities
Jyotirmoy Prodhani
Chapter 12. Framing Violence: Press Photography and the Discourse of Conflict in Northeast India
Syed Murtaza Alfarid Hussain
Chapter 13. On Possible Futures: Photograph as a Document of Migration
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
Chapter 14. (Mis)information and Visual Culture: Memes and Social Media Affects
Basil N. Darlong Diengdoh
Chapter 15. Visualizing Culture: A Semiotic study of a Konyak Woman's Body
Nonlih Chohwanglim

About the author

Edited by Arzuman Ara - Foreword by Usha Raman - Contributions by Saba Anish; Arzuman Ara; Nonlih Chohwanglim; Subir Dhar; Basil N. Darlong Diengdoh; Syed Murtaza Alfarid Hussain; Hrishikesh Ingle; Jayashree Kalita; Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil; Theyiesin

Product details

• Authors: Arzuman Ara
• Assisted by: Arzuman Ara (Editor), Arzuman Ara (Editor), Raman Usha (Foreword), Usha Raman (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666968422
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-842-2
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, ART / Asian / Indian & South Asian, History of Art, Asian History, Cultural studies: customs and traditions, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies