| Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change Contributor(s): Gillespie, Marie (Author) |
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ISBN: 041509674X ISBN-13: 9780415096744 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1995 Annotation: "Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change" explores postmodern issues of migrancy and diasporic cultures. Marie Gillespie's in-depth study, examining how television and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions within the "South Asian" diaspora in London, offers an invaluable survey of how cultures are shaped and changed through people's recreative reception of the media. Looking specifically at young people's preoccupation with television narratives, Gillespie discovers how they both reaffirm and challenge parental traditions, at the same time formulating their own aspirations towards cultural change. "Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change" is an important contribution to current debates in audience studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.230 |
| LCCN: 94022627 |
| Series: Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.17 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change examines how TV and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions within the 'South Asian' diaspora, and how they are also catalysing cultural change in this local community. Marie Gillespie explores how young people negotiate between the parental and peer, local and global, national and international contexts and culturess which traverse their lives. Articulating their own preoccupations with television narratives, they both reaffirm and challenge parental traditions, formulating their own aspirations towards cultural change. Marie Gillespie's in-depth study offers an invaluable survey of how cultures are shaped and changed through people's recreative reception of the media. |