Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
076193474X
ISBN 13
9780761934745
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Unknown
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Publication Year
2006
Publisher
Pages
244
Description
This book analyses how forms of public culture in India―cinema, the comic book, the museum and the tourist brochure―generate social meanings. It 'reads' the strategies through which they reflect, reinforce and at times contest existing power relations within society. Using a range of theories and approaches, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how a cultural form or genre encodes narratives of power, and works to marginalize certain identities, norms, modes of thinking and knowledge while valorizing others. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
