Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India
Biswarup Sen and Abhijit Roy
Channelling Cultures: Television Studies from India is a seminal collection of essays on regional, national and global itineraries of Indian television in the twenty-first century. At a time when the television landscape in India is undergoing a second wave of change with compulsory digitization, new interactivity and convergence, unforeseen forms of televisual publicness and renewed debates on self-censorship, media ethics and the code of content, the essays in the volume seek to provoke a fresh understanding of television as a crucial player in Indian culture and politics. Featu ... More
Channelling Cultures: Television Studies from India is a seminal collection of essays on regional, national and global itineraries of Indian television in the twenty-first century. At a time when the television landscape in India is undergoing a second wave of change with compulsory digitization, new interactivity and convergence, unforeseen forms of televisual publicness and renewed debates on self-censorship, media ethics and the code of content, the essays in the volume seek to provoke a fresh understanding of television as a crucial player in Indian culture and politics. Featuring work by leading experts in the field, it locates the study of television within the myriad histories of the nation as well as various trajectories in global culture and politics. With a special focus on the genres of news, reality TV and soap opera, it addresses issues such as postcoloniality, citizenship, democracy, development, globalization, consumerism, liveness, affect, and gender. The volume demonstrates that Indian television provides an indispensable context for interrogating and critically engaging with the standard assumptions of television studies and more broadly global media studies.
Keywords: postcoloniality, citizenship, democracy, globalization, consumerism, liveness, affect, feminism, public, private, regional television, news, reality TV, soap opera
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2014 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198092056.001.0001
Biswarup Sen, editor
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and CommunicationUniversity of Oregon, USA.
Abhijit Roy, editor
Associate Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
1 TV after Television Studies
ABHIJIT ROY
2 Televisual Temporalities and the Affective Organization of Everyday Life
PURNIMA MANKEKAR
3 Television, Narrative Identity, and Social Imaginaries
SANJAY ASTHANA
4 Spaces of Television
SHANTI KUMAR
5 From Clients to Consumers
DIPANKAR SINHA
6 Television News and an Indian Infotainment Sphere
DAYA KISHAN THUSSU
7 When Live News was Too Dangerous
NALIN MEHTA
8 NDTV 24×7 Remix
JOHN HUTNYK 1
9 Big Brother, Bigg Boss
BISWARUP SEN
10 The Saffron Hues of Gender and Agency on Indian Television
SANTANU CHAKRABARTI
11 Sange Thakun
NILANJANA GUPTA
12 Tears, Talk, and Play
UMA VANGAL