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Visual Cultures in India: Contesting the Site of Sights [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 244 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, 20 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables
  • Išleidimo metai: 05-Feb-2025
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1666968420
  • ISBN-13: 9781666968422
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 244 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, 20 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables
  • Išleidimo metai: 05-Feb-2025
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
  • ISBN-10: 1666968420
  • ISBN-13: 9781666968422
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Visual Cultures in India: Contesting the Site of Sights delves into our visual experiences through diverse media, while unpacking how we encounter and interpret the visual, moving beyond simple “seeing” to deeper levels of meaning. This book explores our experience of visual media that reveals the complex interplay between sight, meaning, and contestation. The authors delve into the very “sites” where visuals are born, displayed, and interpreted. This nuanced approach sheds light on how visual media shapes our understanding of the world and ourselves. From the captivating world of film and photography to the enduring artistry of sculpture and dance, and even the visual tapestry of everyday life, this book weaves a compelling narrative of the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India. It is a timely and significant contribution in an age saturated with imagery. This book equips scholars, researchers, students, and media professionals with a framework to navigate the power of sight and gain a deeper understanding of visual cultures in India.

This book unpacks the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India, offering a critical lens for navigating our image-saturated world. This edited collection explores how we experience visuals beyond just seeing, while examining their creation, display, and interpretation across media.

Recenzijos

"Visual cultures in India are incredibly diverse and rich, reflecting the countrys complex history, religious practices, regional traditions, and contemporary influences. In today's age of visual cultures represented in many and varied forms from traditional graphics to digital platforms, a book like Visual Cultures in India critically revisits the iconization and visualization of the cultural tropes making the volume a significant academic contribution. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it outstandingly accomplished to cater to the needs of researches in Visual Studies, Media Studies, Culture Studies, and India Studies." -- Ravindra Kumar Vemula, The English and Foreign Languages University "This volume presents innovative research on the new importances that visuality continues to acquire in India. Adopting lived cosmopolitanism as an analytical lens, its contributions explore how images and seeing attain new significances in the context of the continually evolving relationship between Indias rapidly expanding cities and its non-urban environments. Visual Cultures in India is therefore a much-needed addition to existing scholarship on the visual, and its manifold interpretations." -- Erik de Maaker, Leiden University "This wide-ranging collection of essays beautifully captures ways of seeing as a terrain of contested meaning, thereby providing vital insights into contemporary cultural productions in India and their relation to the search for truth." -- Peter Hudis, Oakton College

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This book unpacks the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India, offering a critical lens for navigating our image-saturated world. This edited collection explores how we experience visuals beyond just seeing, while examining their creation, display, and interpretation across media.
Introduction

Arzuman Ara



Part I: Textuality and Materiality of Visual Cultures

Chapter
1. On Visual Cultures in India: A Keynote

Kailash C. Baral

Chapter
2. Scopic Borders: Of Frames, Horizons, Parerga and Paralipomena

Subir Dhar

Chapter
3. The Theatrical Tradition of Jatrapala as a Form of Visual
Communication

Silpi Maitra

Chapter
4. Framing the Hyper-Local: Digital Visual Culture and Virtual
Spaces

Hrishikesh Ingle

Part II: Representation and Visual Culture

Chapter
5. Visuals, Props, and Cultural Identity: A Reading of Select
Assamese Films

Dwijen Sharma

Chapter
6. Representation of Muslim Women in Hindi Commercial Cinema: An
Analysis of their Construct and Rendering in Visual Culture

Sonam Sultana Shah

Chapter
7. Representation of Women in the Film Posters of Bollywood

Arzuman Ara

Chapter
8. Gazing Identities: Visual Representation of the Nagas in the
Hornbill Festival and Tourism Photography

Theyiesinuo Keditsu

Chapter
9. Towards a New Visual Myth: An Exploration of the Culturalscape of
Assam in Advertisements

Saba Anish

Chapter
10. The Traditional Assamese Wedding: A Study on the Changing Aspects
of Visual Culture

Jayashree Kalita

Part III: Visual Culture: Semiotics and Discourse

Chapter
11. Present Shock and the Visual Realms of Singular Immensities

Jyotirmoy Prodhani

Chapter
12. Framing Violence: Press Photography and the Discourse of Conflict
in Northeast India

Syed Murtaza Alfarid Hussain

Chapter
13. On Possible Futures: Photograph as a Document of Migration

Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil

Chapter
14. (Mis)information and Visual Culture: Memes and Social Media
Affects

Basil N. Darlong Diengdoh

Chapter
15. Visualizing Culture: A Semiotic study of a Konyak Womans Body

Nonlih Chohwanglim
Arzuman Ara is associate professor of English Language Education in the English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong Campus.