Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television

ISBN-13: 9781032174143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 336 str.

Shoma Munshi

Opis

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyses the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric.

Spis treści

Introduction to second edition

1 Introduction

2 Milieu of production

3 Key elements of production: characteristics of soaps

4 Soap tales

5 Women: similar genre, different representations

6 The male voice

7 Themes and issues

8 Conclusion

Appendix 1: tracking the growth of television in India

Appendix 2: TAM (Television Audience Measurement) ratings

Appendix 3: synopses of soap operas

O autorze

Shoma Munshi is Research Scholar and former Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Kuwait (AUK) and Senior Research Partner at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. She is the author of the first edition of Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television (2010) and Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium (2012), as well as editor of Images of the ‘Modern Woman’ in Asia: Global Media, Local Meanings (2001) and co-editor of Media, War and Terrorism: Responses from the Middle East and Asia (2004, second edition 2007), in addition to authoring several articles in refereed journals. Munshi has earlier worked at Delhi University, University of Amsterdam, University of Pennsylvania, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New Delhi, India.