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0000-0002-7273-1393
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UNSW Sydney
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2021
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 04-2012
Abstract: This article highlights the interdependence of the urban Indian middle class and English-language news television in terms of their particular mixing of neo-liberal commercial interests, a newfound lifestyle focus and an assertive nationalism that is largely insular. After a brief analysis of a small s le of billboard advertisements for Indian news outlets in the context of the middle-class audience for news (and advertising), the article then focuses on mapping and identifying the particular values of the emerging Indian middle class and its media. For this, the article draws on Pavan K. Varma’s polemical work on the emergence and failings of the post-liberalization middle class, on Leela Fernandes’ fieldwork and interviews with the media and advertisers, and also on Nalin Mehta’s research on India’s argumentative tradition as remade on 24-hour news television. Mostly, however, the methodological approach here is to deconstruct the news producers’ construction of the middle-class audience through industry interviews and print media commentary, and highlight how this erges from real-life middle-class complexities and further excludes the lower classes.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/GWAO.12615
Abstract: In this paper, I examine the “Home Cooking” episode of Netflix series Ugly Delicious, and the “Toronto Truths with Foodies of Colour” episode of award‐winning Racist Sandwich podcast to uncover their mediation of a foodie and cosmopolitan person of color identity. By paying close attention to biographical details and the foregrounding of certain aspects of foodie and racialized identities, this paper addresses the question of performativity when it comes to food adventuring by using the mediated lens of the two chosen food shows. Are the hosts (and the semiotics of the programs) potentially challenging the archetype of the adventurous meat‐eating white male, or reinforcing the same by letting certain people into the fold? This analysis is necessary to understand if producers and consumers of color who are vested in exploring different food cultures through their practices do this any differently from dominant cultures.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Date: 2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-09-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-11-2020
Abstract: This article delivers preliminary findings from a series of interviews with Australian migrant producers, directors and writers. With the increasing calls for ersity in the media generally, and on television screens specifically from a wide range of stakeholders (institutions like Screen Australia, advocacy groups and high-profile media personnel of colour), there is le empirical evidence that our public and commercial broadcasters have a long way to go in terms of ‘reflecting’ contemporary Australia. There is also more emphasis on institutionalised strategies, and looking towards overseas models to make this happen. Using the discourses of official and everyday multiculturalism, this article unpacks what it means to ‘reflect reality’, versus the meaning of various kinds of aspirational content, especially in drama and comedy. Such an analysis is crucial to understand the value of ersity beyond the simplistic rationale of ‘reflection’, and particularly in a changing mediascape.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-10-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-06-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-05-2016
Abstract: This essay examines two cases of anti-rape media c aigns that originated in particular cultural contexts, but went viral online. The first of these is #ThisDoesntMeanYes c aign that began when four English women teamed up with renowned photographer Perou and hit the streets of London and snapped 200 women in their own clothing. The second is the It’s Your Fault video in which a group of Indian female comedians l oon controversial comments by public figures after the gang rape of a student in New Delhi in 2012. Given the specificity of the socio-cultural contexts, as well as the impact of transnational new media tools, the above c aigns can be read as largely transgressive in the modes employed to critique rape culture and intersectional in their emphasis on ersity and solidarity.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-09-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Publisher: University College Cork
Date: 24-01-2018
DOI: 10.33178/ALPHA.14.03
Abstract: This article addresses cosmopolitan cinema through the figure of a former refugee in an Australian-made documentary, Constance on the Edge (Belinda Mason, 2016). Beginning with an overview of cosmopolitanism as a project and a political ideal, as well as its relevance now, I then trace its manifestation in the discourses of refugee advocacy that have been evident in Australia over the last couple of decades. This helps set the stage for a close reading of the film, in which a Sudanese asylum seeker who has been resettled in a regional town with her family is struggling to find a sense of belonging in her new home. I argue that such an instance of cosmopolitan cinema facilitates the audience’s capacity to see both similarities and differences in the refugee other, thereby enabling a politics of solidarity that is simultaneously in dialogue with global and national discourses.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-05-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2012
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