Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television - 9781032174143

Taylor & Francis

Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian TelevisionAuthor(s): Shoma Munshi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032174143, 978-1032174143\nSynopsis\nThis 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 Indias cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the \""everyday\"" and the \""middle class\"" through the fiction of the \""popular\"". \n\nIn its second edition, this still remains the only book to examine prime time soap operas on Indian television. Without in any way changing the central arguments of the first edition, it adds an essential introductory chapter tracking the tectonic shifts in the Indian \""mediascape\"" over the past decade including how the explosion of regional language channels and an era of multiple.