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By Ananda Mitra

ISBN-10: 935150977X

ISBN-13: 9789351509776

An insightful research and effect evaluate of the ways that India is portrayed on diverse displays within the west

This publication examines the nuances of a number of images—cinema, television, machine, and smartphones—that feed into the making of a brand new Indian narrative and show off an India that's very diverse from the unilinear suggestion that used to exist a number of a long time in the past. It elaborates at the serious function of the impressions shaped in redefining how the Indian diaspora is imagined and obtained within the West, which in flip affects daily studies of Indians dwelling there.

Building on his prior booklet India throughout the Western Lens: developing nationwide photographs in movie (SAGE 1999), which targeted totally on motion pictures, Mitra expands his most recent research to new media. successfully, the booklet highlights the West’s belief of India in line with what's being projected via visible media.

 

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