1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007967790403321

Autore

Bertetti, Paolo

Titolo

Lo sguardo degli angeli : intorno e oltre Blade Runner / Paolo Bertetti, Carlos Scolari

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Testo & Immagine, ©2002

ISBN

88-8382-075-4

Descrizione fisica

283 p. : ill. ; 19 cm

Collana

ControSegni , Saggistica ; 19

Altri autori (Persone)

Scolari, Carlos

Disciplina

791.43615

Locazione

BFS

Collocazione

791.43615 BER 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Contiene bib. (pp.267-275)



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784381403321

Titolo

Consuming modernity [[electronic resource] ] : public culture in a South Asian world / / Carol A. Breckenridge, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1995

ISBN

0-8166-8532-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BreckenridgeCarol Appadurai <1942-2009.>

Disciplina

306/.0954

Soggetti

Popular culture - India

India Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; One. Public Modernity in India; Part I. The Historical Past; Two. Playing with Modernity: The Decolonization of Indian Cricket; Three. Upon the Subdominant: Administering Music on All-India Radio; Four. The Indian Princes as Fantasy: Palace Hotels, Palace Museums, and Palace on Wheels; Five. Dining Out in Bombay; Part II. The Historical Present; Six. Consuming Utopia: Film Watching in Tamil Nadu; Seven. Melodrama and the Negotiation of Morality in Mainstream Hindi Film; Eight. Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power, and Self in an Indian Martial Art

Nine. Nation, Economy, and Tradition Displayed: The Indian Crafts Museum, New DelhiContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Illustrates that what is distinctive of any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The contributors address the roles intertwined interests in the making of India's public culture, each examining different sites of consumption. The sites they explore include cinema, radio, cricket, restaurants, and tourism.