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“anjali ram”

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  • Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity

    by Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Bryant K. Alexander, Timothy J. Anderson, Curtiss L. Bailey, Lisa Bradford, Benjamin J. Broome, Merry Buchanan, Nancy A. Burrell, Peter Chhuor, Susan Hafen, Kristin M. Langellier, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Edward A. Mabry, Keturah D. McEwen, S Lily Mendoza, John Oetzel, Margarita Refugia Olivas, Jerry Pinkney, Steven B. Pratt, Anjali Ram, Debra-L Sequeira, Robert Westerfelhaus, Gust A. Yep, Natalie J. Dollar ...
    This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches_from empirical to ethnographic_the chapters look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Consuming Bollywood

    Gender, Globalization and Media in the Indian Diaspora

    by Anjali Ram ...
    Consuming Bollywood is a major activity in the Indian diaspora and the revenue generated from diasporic audiences is growing exponentially. By combining extended qualitative interviews and textual analysis, this book provides an insightful analysis of how the women who are socially located in the Indian diaspora use the spectacle of Bollywood cinema to renegotiate cultural meanings of home, gender ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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    Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the cinema as motivated by an ongoing crisis of self-formation in modern India.The book looks at how ... Read more

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  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

    by Sumita S. Chakravarty ...
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    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

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    by Tabish Khair ...
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  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Impossible Desires

    Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures

    by Gayatri Gopinath, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

    Edited by Mark McLelland, Romit Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan, considering both heterosexual and non-heterosexual histories, lifestyles and identities.Written by key Japanese authors and Western scholars the volume examines how non-conformist individuals have ... Read more

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  • Documentary Film in India

    An Anthropological History

    by Giulia Battaglia ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. The book navigates different historical moments of the growth of documentary filmmaking in India from ... Read more

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  • Beyond Bollywood

    The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

    by Jigna Desai ...
    Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Media Worlds

    Anthropology on New Terrain

    Edited by Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin ...
    This groundbreaking volume showcases the exciting work emerging from the ethnography of media, a burgeoning new area in anthropology that expands both social theory and ethnographic fieldwork to examine the way media—film, television, video—are used in societies around the globe, often in places that have been off the map of conventional media studies. The contributors, key figures in this new ... Read more

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  • Censorium

    Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity

    by William Mazzarella ...
    In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because of what they understand, what they feel, or what they might imagine?At the intersection of ... Read more

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