Dangerous desires: television and erotics in late twentieth-century India

Article Abstract:

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.

India, Indian culture

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Homeland beauty: transnational longing and Hmong American video

Article Abstract:

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.

Evaluation, Ethnology, Cultural anthropology, Hmong Americans

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Introduction: mediated transnationalism and social erotics

Article Abstract:

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.

Social ethics, Social sciences and ethics

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