Open access book release: Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond
We are thrilled to introduce our latest edited media volume with Sage, titled: Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond. This volume features the writings of leading media scholars from South Asia and Europe on the topic of how media articulates political energies and transformational logics. The research traverses the press, newsreels, entertainment cinema, photography, television, music, social media and data-driven politics. The authors consider how media industries, institutions and practices constitute sites where conflicts relating to wider social change are observable.
Authors address media materiality and aesthetics in tracking political effects and resonances on subjects such as wire photo transfers, film set design, the formal structures of the newsreel, the role of television audience surveys, the relationship between digital and paper records, the place of media in courts of law and the phenomenon of the media trial. The overall approach in understanding media and the political is not only to access formal institutions, both of media and politics but also to expand perspective to trace the wider dispersed appearance of the political in and through media.
Editor: Ravi Vasudevan is Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and works in the area of film and media history. With Ravi Sundaram, he directs Sarai, the CSDS media research programme, and with Srirupa Roy, the thematic module on media for the International Centre for Advanced Studies: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP). His publications include Making Meaning in Indian Cinema (2000), The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (2010) and Documentary Now (Marg special issue 2018). He is the founding editor of the screen studies journal BioScope. His current research is on the documentary film archive and the writing of history.
The book is available on the Sage Spectrum website at the following location: https://spectrum.sagepub.in/book/media-and-the-constitution-of-the-political-ravi-vasudevan-9789354790768/14.
The digital version of the book can be downloaded for free on the Amazon website in your country and on many other digital stores, e.g. ebooks.com, Kobo, Google Play etc.
In India, the kindle edition can be downloaded for free under the following link: https://www.amazon.in/Media-Constitution-Political-South-Beyond-ebook/dp/B09Q5TC23R/ref=sr_1_1 crid=1ATMBNU7B5FN3&keywords=media+and+the+constitution+of+the+political&qid=1642153598&sprefix=media+and+%2Caps%2C213&sr=8-1
The print book is available globally for sale on Amazon and the Sage Spectrum website. The book will also be freely accessible to social sciences and management libraries across the country through Sage eVidya, a digital library that has over 1300 social sciences titles.
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Himanshu (January 17, 2022). Open access book release: Media and the Constitution of the Political: South Asia and Beyond. ICAS:MP. Retrieved September 11, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rfb3
