Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India - Bargaining With Capital

Informationen zum Autor Jyotsna Kapur is Professor of Cinema Studies and Sociology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. Klappentext A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India's shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction: After Me the Flood; Chapter 1: Brand India’s Biggest Sale: The Cultural Politics and Political Economy of India’s “Global Generation”; Chapter 2: Arrested Development and the Making of a Neoliberal State; Chapter 3: For Some Dreams a Lifetime is Not Enough: The “Rasa” Aesthetic and the Everyday in Neoliberalism; Chapter 4: An “Arranged Love” Marriage: India’s Neoliberal Turn and the Bollywood Wedding Culture Industry; Chapter 5: “Ek Haseenah Thi” (There Once Was a Maiden): The Vanishing Middle Class and Other Neoliberal Thrills; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jyotsna Kapur, Kapur Jyotsna
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9780857281098
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-109-8
• Pagine: 158
• Serie: Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies; Anthem South Asian Studies; Diversity and Plurality in South Asia
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, India