Consuming Bollywood: Gender, Globalization and Media in the Indian Diaspora

by Anjali Ram

Overview

By combining extended qualitative interviews and textual analysis, this book provides an insightful analysis of how the women who are socially located in the Indian diaspora use the spectacle of Bollywood cinema to renegotiate cultural meanings of home, gender, belonging, and identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433113420
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	07/16/2014
Pages:	217
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Anjali Ram (PhD in Communication, Ohio University) is Professor of Global Communication at Roger Williams University. She has published in journals such as Women’s Studies in Communication, Human Development, Mind, Culture, and Activity, and Culture and Psychology and in edited books such as Mediated Women, Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity, and Sociology of the Diaspora: A Reader.

Table of Contents

Contents: Reading out of Place: Global Media and Diasporic Identity – Mediating Memories – National Texts and Transnational Identities – Gender and Viewing Pleasures – Gendered Transitions: From Mythic Nation to Consumer Nation – Gender, Performance, and Bollywood’s Commodity Culture.