"In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting edge ethnography of television viewing in India. Mankekar focuses on the responses of upwardly mobile, middle-class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials (including Ramayan, Mahabharat and Hum Log). She demonstrates how television in India has profoundly shaped women's place in the family, community and nation and how it has played a crucial role in the realignment of ...
