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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300043103321

Autore

Kay Kavyta

Titolo

New Indian Nuttahs : Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India / / by Kavyta Kay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-97867-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (99 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Comedy

Disciplina

954

Soggetti

Popular Culture

Cultural policy

Culture—Study and teaching

Ethnology—Asia

Comedy

Cultural Policy and Politics

Cultural Theory

Asian Culture

Comedy Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. 'New’ India and the nuttahs -- 2. Riffing India Comedy, Identity, and Censorship -- 3. Women in internet comedy -- 4. Down to brown: A footnote on British Asian and South Asian American comedy -- 5. The currency of comedy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India. It provides a unique analysis into the growing phenomenon of internet comedy and into a dimension of Indian popular culture which has long been dominated by the traditional film and television industries. Through a mixture of close textual readings of online comedy videos and interviews with content creators and consumers in India, this book provides a fresh perspective on comedy studies in its approach to a



global South context from a sociocultural perspective. As a protean form of new media, this has opened up new avenues of articulation, identification and disidentification and as such, this book makes a further contribution to South Asian, communication, media & cultural studies.