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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 May 2019
      09 May 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108631082
      9781108481700
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108631082
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 220 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Politics and International Relations, Media, Mass Communication
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    India's State-run Media presents a new perspective on broadcasting by bringing together two neglected areas of research in media studies in India - the intertwined genealogies of sovereignty, public, religion, and nation in radio and television, and the spatiotemporal dynamics of broadcasting into a single analytic inquiry. It argues that the spatiotemporalities of broadcasting and the inter-relationships among the public, religion, and nation can be traced to an organizing concept that shaped India's late colonial and postcolonial histories - sovereignty. The book contends that studies of television have glossed over the meanings, experiences, and practices of the religious in televisual narratives and viewers' interpretations of television programs. Drawing on the philosophical writings of Paul Ricoeur and Michel Foucault, connecting their ideas with media, cultural, and religious studies, it examines cultural discourses, power relations, repertoire of meanings, social events, etc. in broadcasting in late colonial and postcolonial India.

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    ‘This ambitious and wide-ranging book uses the form and force of state-run media (radio and television as well as music broadcasts) in India, to stage a broader argument about critical and postcolonial media studies, drawing on Foucault and Ricoeur. It will be of great interest to media scholars, postcolonial theorists and South Asia experts.'

    Arjun Appadurai - New York University

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