Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television

by Shoma Munshi

Book Overview

This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyzes the production of soaps within India's cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the "everyday" and the "middle class" through the fiction of the "popular".

In its second edition, this still remains the only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032174145
• ISBN13: 9781032174143
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"