This book brings together a set of essays that take the reader through the everyday and exceptional worlds of Indian popular visual culture. The contributors to this volume, among the leading authorities on the subject, examine media ranging from mass-produced print to photography and film. In doing so, they explore how the dynamics of affect and belief, patriotism and love, consumption and urbanization, animate the vibrant world of Indian popular images.' - excerpted from back cover.
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English
2015
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GREETINGS!
1. Good Morning - Welcome - Svagatam - Patricia UBEROI
2. Eid Mubarak - Yousuf SAEED
ON LOVE, LAND, AND LANDSCAPES
3. Artful Mapping in Bazaar India - Sumathi RAMASWAMY
4. Picturing Mountains as Hills - Shashwati TALUKDAR
5. Monuments, Landscapes and Romance in Indian Popular Imagery - Kajri JAIN
6. The Looks and Sites of Love - Christiane BROSIUS
7. Fantasizing the Mughals and Popular Perceptions of the Taj Mahal - Catherine B. ASHER
OF GODS AND CITIES
8. Temple in a Frame - Richard H. DAVIS
9. Miniature Societies and Grihani Aesthetics - Annapurna GARIMELLA
10. Gods on Tiles - Shirley ABRAHAM, Amit MADHESHIYA
11. Chennai Beautiful - Roos GERRITSEN
12. K Madhavan: 'The Norman Rockwell of South India' - Stephen INGLIS
CONSUMING IMAGES
13. The Commodity Image in the Post-Colony - Arvind RAJAGOPAL
14. Consumption and Identity - Sandria B. FREITAG
15. Chai Why? - Philip LITGENDORF
16. Modernity at Home - Abigail MCGOWAN
AT THE MOVIES
17. Selling Soap and Stardom - Sabeena GADIHOKE
18. Still Magic - Rosie THOMAS
19. Miss Use - Vishal RAWLLEY
Visual Homes, Image Worlds: Essays from Tasveer Char, the House of Pictures
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