| Description |
1 online resource (xli, 379 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Mapping Visual Cultures in India -- Part I Camera Works -- Chapter 1 The Photograph in Social Science Research: A Few Ethical and Practical Questions -- Chapter 2 Unlikely â#x80;#x98;Devisâ#x80;#x99;: Gender and Imagination On and Off the Silver Screen -- Chapter 3 Visualising Death and the Corpse: Perspectives on Post-mortem Photographs in Central-Eastern India -- Part II Folk/Artistry -- Chapter 4 9/11 and the Fol k Artists of Bengal |
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Chapter 5 From Ritual Images to Animated Movies: The Transformative Journey of the Sora Paintings(Central-Eastern India) Chapter 6 Anjan Senâ#x80;#x99;s Visual Poetry and the Bengal Uttar-Adhunik School -- Part III Market Signs -- Chapter 7 The Visual Culture of Meat-shop Signs in Delhi -- Chapter 8 The Imagery of Indian Matchmaking: Representations of Community, Class and Genderin a Transnational Online Matrimonial Market -- Part IV Pictorial Politics -- Chapter 9 A Museum, a Memorial, and a Martyr: Politics of Memory in the Sikh Golden Temple |
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Chapter 10 Divine Order, Social Disorder:Debating the Visual Representations of Lalu Prasad YadavChapter 11 Amma Provides for All: Popular Devotional Aesthetics, Material Politics and the Amman in Tamil Nadu -- Part V Monumental Landscapes -- Chapter 12 Building â#x80;#x98;Monumentsâ#x80;#x99; in a World-class City: Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Delhi -- Chapter 13 Mayawatiâ#x80;#x99;s Politics of Sthals:Spectacle of the Symbolic Landscape -- About the Editors and Contributors |
| Summary |
Comprehensive and novel overview of visual cultures and practices specifically in India, which goes beyond the primary or sole focus on still and moving images |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020) |
| Subject |
Visual communication -- India -- History
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Art and society -- India -- History
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- India -- History
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Pictures -- Social aspects -- India -- History
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Material culture -- India -- History
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Popular culture -- India -- History
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Art and society
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Intellectual life
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Material culture
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Pictures -- Social aspects
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Popular culture
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Visual communication
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
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India -- Intellectual life -- 21st century
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Skoda, Uwe, 1973- editor.
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Lettmann, Birgit, editor
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| ISBN |
9386446707 |
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9789386446701 |
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9789386446695 |
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9386446693 |
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