Leila Shamas Book Review
Posted in Mankekar on Apr 10th, 2009
In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India, Purnima Mankekar situates Indian television in a social commentary on the nature of the family, nationality, and identity in India. Mankekar specifically focuses her research on Doordarshan (state-run television) which is engaged in constant dialogue with its viewers in a [...]