No Limits

Media Studies from India

Edited by Ravi Sundaram

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

Part of the Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society series
Traces and studies the globalization of Indian media
Accesses the contemporary references reflected in media since globalization in India
Deals with media technology's relation with the public
Editor and contributors are well-known scholars in the field

No Limits

Media Studies from India

Edited by Ravi Sundaram

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

Description

India after globalization is an increasingly mediatized society. Today, media experiences, desires, dream worlds, and fears have enveloped our time with force that was unimagined before. The blurring of the private and the public is now dramatically visible. The 'power of media' is a core explanatory category in public and academic common sense. No Limits maps the emergence of this mediatized world, and reflects on its wideranging consequences.

The volume approaches this transformation of India from the prism of media studies. With essays authored by well-known scholars in the fields of cinema, television, radio, music, print, and the Internet, it presents a wide ranging and fresh perspective on our mediamodernity. From media in the colonial era to contemporary experiences after globalization, it provides a long-term, comparative perspective to the present transformations. No Limits maps new connections between old and new media, and sets up questions for addressing past and present.

Presenting the media in India as a prism through which millions access the world, this volume will be indispensable to common citizens, students and scholars of sociology, social anthropology, media and cultural studies, mass communication, political science, and history.

No Limits

Media Studies from India

Edited by Ravi Sundaram

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Horizon of Media Studies, Ravi Sundaram
PART ONE: MAPPING THE TERRAIN
1. The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena The 'Bollywoodization' of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena
Afterword: The Bollywoodization Argument-Ten Years On, Ashish Rajadhyaksha
2. Sensuous Encounters: Law, Affect, and the Media Event, Lawrence Liang
3. The Inner and Outer Worlds of Emergent Television Cultures, Shohini Ghosh
PART TWO: CIRCULATION
4. Mission, Money, and Machinery: Indian Newspapers in the Twentieth Century, Robin Jeffrey
5. Revisiting the Pirate Kingdom, Ravi Sundaram
6. Figures of Transit: Tracing a Century of Hollywood in India, Nitin Govil
PART THREE: PUBLICS
7. Creating Cinema's Reading Publics: The Emergence of Film Journalism in Bombay, Debashree Mukherjee
8. Notes on Contemporary Film Experience: 'Bollywood', Genre Diversity, and Video Circuits, Ravi S. Vasudevan
9. Whistling Fans: Reflections on the Sociology, Politics, and Performativity of an Excessively Active Audience, S.V. Srinivas
10. Unimaginable Communities: Television, Globalization, and National Identities in Postcolonial India, Shanti Kumar
11. The Imagined Reign of the Iron Lecturer: Village Broadcast in Colonial India, Joselyn Zivin
12. The 'Terrorist' and the Screen: Afterimages of the Batla House 'Encounter', Shuddhabrata Sengupta
PART FOUR: PRODUCTION
13. The Gramophone Company in India, 1898-1912: The Evolution of an Early Media Enterprise, Vibodh Parthasarthy
14. Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture to the Digital Era, Peter Manuel
15. Film Stardom after Liveness, Ranjani Mazumdar
Notes on Contributors
Index

No Limits

Media Studies from India

Edited by Ravi Sundaram

Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society

Author Information

Edited by Ravi Sundaram, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Ravi Sundaram is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Contributors:

Shohini Ghosh is Professor Zakir Hussain Chair, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi; Nitin Govil is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego; Robin Jeffrey is Visiting Research Professor, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Shanti Kumar is Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin; Lawrence Liang is affiliated with Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, India; Peter Manuel is Professor, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York; Ranjani Mazumdar is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Debashree Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, New York; Vibodh Parthasarthi is at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi; Ashish Rajadhyaksha is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India; Shuddhabrata Sengupta is a media practitioner, filmmaker and writer with the Raqs Media Collective, and one of the initiators of Sarai; S.V. Srinivas is a Senior Fellow at CSCS and coordinator of the Culture: Industries and Diversity in Asia (CIDASIA) research programme; Ravi Sundaram is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Ravi S. Vasudevan is Smuts Visiting Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Joselyn Zivin is Vice President, Marketing and Communications, National Louis University, Chicago.