Dangerous desires: television and erotics in late twentieth-century India
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The eroticization of discourses and desires of public culture and the television programs telecast on transnational television in India is discussed. The place of erotics in the reconfiguration of gender, family, class and nation occurring in metropolitan centers such as New Delhi in late twentieth-century India is examined.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2004
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Homeland beauty: transnational longing and Hmong American video
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The diasporic longing for the homeland is refracted in the videos of the Hmong Americans that are bout exploring the ways that videos communicate Hmong migrant subjectives. The methodological issues for an ethnography of media as agents of erotic subjectification are explored.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2004
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Introduction: mediated transnationalism and social erotics
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The creation of new cartographies of desire with the advent of transnational media is discussed. The production and interpretation of media representations of the erotic is described.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2004
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