South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts

277 Pages·2010·1.626 MB·English

by  Shakuntala Banaji

South Asian Media Cultures

South Asian Media Cultures
Audiences, Representations, Contexts
Edited by
Shakuntala Banaji
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For
Ammar Al-Ghabban,Mukul Mangalik,Rohini Hensman and Jairus Banaji,
whose imagination and integrity transcend disciplines and borders;
and
in memory of C. R. Hensman

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
1. Introduction 1
Shakuntala Banaji
Part One: Elaborating Audiences: Meaning, Use
and Social Context 27
2. Talking Back to ‘Bollywood’:Hindi Commercial Cinema
in North-East India 29
Daisy Hasan
3. ‘Adverts Make Me Want to Break the Television’:Indian
Children and their Audiovisual Media Environment in
Three Contrasting Locations 51
Shakuntala Banaji
4. Urdu for Image:Understanding Bangladeshi Cinema
through its Theatres 73
Lotte Hoek
5. Musical Media and Cosmopolitanisms in Nepal’s Popular
Music,1950–2006 91
Paul D.Greene
Part Two: Telling Texts: Media Discourse, Identity
and Politics 107
6. Private Satellite Media and the Geo-Politics of Moderation
in Pakistan 109
Tahir H.Naqvi
7. Forgetting to Remember:The Privatisation of the Public,the
Economisation of Hindutva,and the Medialisation of Genocide 123
Britta Ohm
viii SOUTH ASIAN MEDIA CULTURES
8. Myth – The National Form: Mission Istanbuland Muslim
Representation in Hindi Popular Cinema 145
Noorel Mecklai
9. A Peace of Soap:Representations of Peace and Conflict
in Popular Teledramas in Sri Lanka 163
Neluka Silva
10. Destigmatising Star Texts – Honour and Shame among Muslim
Women in Pakistani Cinema 181
Irna Qureshi
Part Three: Alternative Producers: The Articulation of
(New) Media, Politics and Civic Participation 199
11. Through the Lens of a ‘Branded Criminal’:The Politics of 201
Marginal Cinema in India
Rashmi Sawhney
12. Pakistani Students’Uses of New Media to Construct
a Narrative of Dissent 221
Saman Talib
13. Expanding the Art of the Possible:Leveraging Citizen
Journalism and User Generated Content (USG) for Peace
in Sri Lanka 235
Sanjana Hattotuwa
14. Conclusion 255
Shakuntala Banaji
List of Contributors 263
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 2.1 Manipuri film posters,courtesy Daisy Hasan 36
Figure 2.2 Manipuri films have replaced Bollywood in
theatres in Imphal,courtesy Daisy Hasan 37
Figure 2.3 Manipuri film showing in a theatre in Imphal,
courtesy Daisy Hasan 38
Figure 2.4 A cinema hall in Imphal screening a Manipuri film,
courtesy Daisy Hasan 39
Figure 11.1 ‘Entrance to Chharanagar’
(Photo credit:P.Kerim Friedman) 204
Figure 11.2 Scene from EkAur Balcony(‘One More Balcony’),
courtesy Budhan Theatre 205
Figure 11.3 Scene from EkAur Balcony(‘One More Balcony’),
courtesy Budhan Theatre 205