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Zacharias, Usha. 2003. The Smile of Mona Lisa: Postcolonial Desires, Nationalist Families, and the Birth of Consumer Television in India. Critical Studies in Media Communication 20 (4) : 388–406.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

economics | gender | political discussion | social class | television

Place, Publisher

Routledge

ISBN

0739-3180

Annotation

This paper investigates how the birth of consumer television in India during the late 1980s made market liberalization and a conservative politics of class, gender, and religio-cultural community more easier.