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Global South Asia on Screen (Hardcover)
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Global South Asia on Screen (Hardcover)
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With importance for geopolitical cultural economy, anthropology,
and media studies, John Hutnyk brings South Asian circuits of
scholarship to attention where, alongside critical Marxist and
poststructuralist authors, a new take on film and television is on
offer. The book presents Raj-era costume dramas as a commentary on
contemporary anti-Muslim racism, a new political compact in film
and television studies, and the President watching a snuff film
from Pakistan. Hanif Kureishi's postcolonial 'fuck Sandwich' sits
alongside Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, updated for the war on
terror with low-brow, high-brow versions of Asia that carry us up
the Himalayas with magic carpet TV nostalgia. Maoists rage below
and books go up in flames while News network phone-ins end with
executions on the Hanging Channel and arms trade and immigration
paranoia thrives. Multiplying filmi versions of Mela are measured
against a transnational realignment towards Global South Asia in a
contested and testing political future. Each chapter offers a slice
of historical study and assessment of media theory appropriate for
viewers of Global South Asia seeking to understand why lurid
exoticism and paralysing terror go hand-in-hand. The answers are in
the images always open to interpretation, but Global South Asia on
Screen examines the ways film and TV trade on stereotype and fear,
nationalism and desire, politics and context, and with this the
book calls for wider reading than media theory has hitherto
entertained.
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