Pleasure and the nation : the history, politics, and consumption of public culture in India / edited by Rachel Dwyer, Christopher Pinney.

Title & Author:

Pleasure and the nation : the history, politics, and consumption of public culture in India / edited by Rachel Dwyer, Christopher Pinney.

Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Description:

vi, 366 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

SOAS studies in South Asia : understandings and perspectives

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-351) and index.
Introduction : public, popular, and other cultures / Christopher Pinney -- Visions of the nation : theorizing the nexus between creation, consumption, and participation in the public sphere / Sandria B. Freitag -- The Indar Sabha phenomenon : public theatre and consumption in greater India (1853-1956) / Kathryn Hansen -- The tale of the book : storytelling and print in nineteenth-century Tamil / Stuart Blackburn -- Invitation to an antique death : the journey of Pramathesh Barua as the origin of the terribly effeminate, Maudlin, self-destructive heroes of Indian cinema / Ashis Nandy -- The home and the nation : consuming culture and politics in Roja / Nicholas B. Dirks -- Bombay and its public / Ravi S. Vasudevan -- Opposing faces : film star fan clubs and the construction of class identities in South India / Sara Dickey -- Shooting stars : the Indian film magazine, Stardust / Rachel Dwyer -- Hidden pleasures: negotiating the myth of the female ideal in popular Hindi cinema / Asha Kasbekar -- Imagining the family : an ethnography of viewing Hum Aapke Hain Koun ...! / Patricia Uberoi.
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ISBN:

0195650905
9780195650907
9780195663327
0195663322

Subject:

Popular culture India.
Culture populaire Inde.
24.32 history of film art.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Volkskultur
Aufsatzsammlung
India Intellectual life.
India Social life and customs.
Inde Mœurs et coutumes.
India.
Indien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Dwyer, Rachel.
Pinney, Christopher.
SOAS studies on South Asia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223278
Call No.: DS423 .P5 2001
Status: Available

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