Web sites on Media and Society in South Asia

General Cultural or Research Web Sites

Asia Society: Asia Source: http://asiasource.org/ Arts and Culture section includes links for most Asian countries; Asia Today is a daily news summary which includes a section on Arts & Culture from Asian English language media

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html The largest aggregation of Asia-related web pages; always a good place to check

Asian Studies Current Awareness and Table-of-Contents (TOCs) Services: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/pages/AsStAlerting.html Most of these are free and allow one to create a profile so notification of new books or journal issues are e-mailed when available

Routledge Arenas: http://www.routledge.com/rcenters/rcen.html A publisher-based set of links, including Asian Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, and specific subjects; other publishers have similar value-added web pages

SAWNET: South Asian Women’s NETwork: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/ Includes links to cinema sites, books, women’s issues

Free Database/TOCs

CARL UnCover: http://uncweb.carl.org/ Especially useful for South Asia because the University of Hawaii’s Asia Collection provides journals published in South Asia; UnCover Reveal based on this database

CISTI Source: http://ec101.cisti.nrc.ca/CISTI/SOURCE/SMENU Especially useful for European scholarship

National Resource Centers with Video Collections: Some loan videos; others may assist in identifying titles of interest for courses

Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/index.las Searchable database for feature films, documentaries and other course support materials

Syracuse University: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/southasiacenter/resources/default.asp

University of California-Berkeley: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/SSEAsiaVid.html#India

University of Pennsylvania: http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/html/audio-visual_library.html

University of Texas-Austin: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/outreach/layout.html

University of Virginia: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/SAvideos/saVideos.html

University of Wisconsin-Madison: http://www.wisc.edu/southasia/films/index.html

South and Southeast Asia Video Archive, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries: http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/SEAvideo/ Can find videos with subtitles by searching on English

Purchasing Videos/DVDs

Facets: http://www.facets.org/ Used by most libraries for acquiring international films

Films for the Humanities and Sciences: http://www.films.com/ Can be searched by country or topic for films, CD-ROMs; purchase or rent

Association of Grandparents of Indian Immigrants: http://www.indolink.com/Global/videoACK.html Can order videos on Indian culture which use stills from the Amar Chitra Katha and English narration

Calendar Art/Comics

Amar Chitra Katha: http://www.navrang.com/ack/ The "official" Amar Chitra Katha web page is under construction. Comics can be purchased from Navrang or other Indian booksellers online.

Smith God Poster Archive: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/southasiacenter/SmithArc.htm

Jain, Kajri. "Gods in the bazaar: the subjects of calendar art," South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Nedlands, Australia) 21, no.1 (Jun 1998, 91-108)

-----------. "The Efficacious Image: Pictures and Power in Indian Mass Culture, " Polygraph 12 (2000), 159-185.

-----------. "Looking back at the calendar: hybridity in Indian calendar art," Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (Sydney) 24, 1992, 33-48.

-----------. "When the Gods go to Market: the Ritual Management of Desire in Indian ‘Bazaar Art,’" Communal/Plural: Journal o Transnational and Crosscultural Studies,6:2 (1998), 187-204.

Joshi, O.P. Gods of heaven, home of gods : a study of popular prints. Jaipur: Illustrated Book Publishers, 1994.

Thakurta, Tapati Guha. "Women as 'calendar art' icons: emergence of pictorial stereotype in colonial India," Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) 26, no.43 (Oct 26 1991, WS91-WS99)

Uberoi, Patricia. "Feminine identity and national ethos in Indian calendar art," Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) 25, no.17 (Apr 28 1990, WS41-WS48)

Theater

Bengalinatak.com: http://www.bengalinatak.com/ A site devoted to Bengali theater. Quality varies, but web searches can be done on most of the regional language traditions, and some theatre companies in India maintain web sites.

Bharucha, Rustom. The politics of cultural practice : thinking through theatre in an age of globalization. London: Athlone, 2000.

Ghosh, Nemai. Dramatic moments : photographs and memories of Calcutta theatre from the sixties to the nineties. Calcutta: Seagull, 2000.

Indian theatre : traditions of performance, ed. Farley Richmond. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.

Seizer, Susan. "Jokes, gender, and discursive distance on the Tamil popular stage," American Ethnologist (Washington, D.C.) 24, no.1 (Feb 1997, 62-90)

----------------. "Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses," Cultural Anthropology, 15:2 (May 2000), 217-259.

Film/Cinema

IndiaNetGuide: Entertainment: http://hindustan.net/Entertainment/ Includes links for most mass media and performing arts

Planet Bollywood: http://www.planetbollywood.com/index2.html

SARAI: http://www.sarai.net/ A new media initiative based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi

Yahoo India Entertainment: http://in.dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/India/Entertainment/ Links to a variety of media-related sites; similar types of access through other search engines

Ghosh, Shohini. Pluralizing the Pleasures of Viewership: Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, The Social Scientist, 28: 3-4, March-April 2000, 83-90.

Gokulsingh, K. Indian popular cinema : a narrative of cultural change. Stoke on Trent : Trentham Books, 1998.

Gopalan, Lalitha. "Avenging women in Indian cinema," Nivedini (Colombo) 5, no.1 (Jun 1997, 59-84); another version in Making Meaning in Indian Cinema

------------------. "Coitus Interruptus and Love Story in Indian Cinema," in Representing the Body: Gender Issues in Indian Art, ed. Vidya Dehejia (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1997), 124-139.

------------------. "Reports: "Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory" Chennai, India, 15-19 August 1997," Screen 39:2 [Summer 1998] p.196-200.

Rajadhyaksha, Ashish. Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. [revised edition]

The secret politics of our desires : innocence, culpability, and Indian popular cinema, edited by Ashis Nandy. London ; New York: Zed Books, 1998.

Vasudevan, Ravi. "Bombay and its Public," in Pleasure and the Nation, ed. Rachel Dwyer (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001.

-------------------. "The cultural space of a film narrative: interpreting Kismet (Bombay Talkies, 1943)," Indian Economic and Social History Review (Delhi) 28, no. 2 (Apr-Jun 1991, 171-185)

-------------------. Making meaning in Indian cinema. New Delhi: Oxford, 2000.

-------------------. "The Melodramatic Mode and the Commercial Hindi Cinema," Screen 30:3 (1989),

-------------------. "National Pasts and Futures: Indian Cinema," Screen 41:1 [Spring 2000] p.119-125.

-------------------. "Other voices: Roja against the grain," Seminar (New Delhi) 423 (Nov 1994, 43-47)

-------------------. "You cannot live in society and ignore it: nationhood and female modernity in Andaz," Contributions to Indian Sociology (Delhi) 29, nos.1-2 (Jan-Dec 1995, 83-108)

Television

Indian Television dot com: http://www.indiantelevision.com/ Site appears to be a major source on the industry

Doordarshan: http://www.ddindia.net/ Official Govt. of India television network

Rajagopal, Arvind. "Advertising, Politics, and the Sentimental Education of the Indian Consumer," Visual Anthropology Review, 14:2 (1998/99), 14-31.

--------------------. Politics after television : religious nationalism and the reshaping of the Indian public. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

--------------------. "Thinking about the New Indian Middle Class: Gender, Advertising and Politics in an Age of Globalization" in Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India, ed. Rakeswari Sunder Rajan (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1999), 57-100.

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