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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 05, 2007

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  The Making of “Desi” Culture on MTV youth culture transnational South Asian promo MTV India ... not South Asians but of South Asia. People of South Asian origin in the United States commonly refer ... one's identity as South Asian but also as being "outside South Asia". As the young man reminds ...
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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace

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  Madhavi Mallapragada University of Texas at Austin

  April 14, 2008

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  Show me the Money: Desi TV in the US Marketplace globalization diaspora South Asian ... transnationalism Asian-American cable original programming India distribution Simply Desi ImaginAsian TV ... Note The featured video clip is from 2007 when Simply Desi, a 3 and ½ hour block of South Asian ...
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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced

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  Shilpa Davé University of Virginia

  March 25, 2011

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  Calling the Working South Asian: American Accents and Outsourced television South Asians South ... Asian racial performance Outsourced India comedy Asian Americans Accent Curator's Note In the 2010 ... South Asian/American actors and South Asian American writers. According to writer Geethika Lizardi, the ...
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  Autism, Automaton, Alibi

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  April 06, 2011

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  Autism, Automaton, Alibi autism in the media South Asians Bollywood South Asian films India ...
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  Bant Singh can still sing

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  Jyotsna Kapur Southern Illinois University

  February 02, 2007

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  video through a South-Asian list-serve and Bant Singh’s songs, firm gaze, and fearless gestures have ...
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  The Chinese Connection: Memory and Loss in The Legend of Fat Mama

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  Anirban Baishya University of Southern California

  March 17, 2016

  The Chinese Connection: Memory and Loss in The Legend of Fat Mama India Im(Possible) Asias ...
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  The Inadequately Violent State?

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  Samir Dayal Bentley University

  May 17, 2010

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  Asians, groups such as SAHMAT, and many in the film community (Preity Zinta apparently tweeted that SRK was ... character, possibly a conceit borrowed from Rain Man (Barry Levinson, 1988), and the "stupidity" of ...
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  Who Wants to be an Indian? Re-imagining Reality with Global TV Formats

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  Lauhona Ganguly The New School

  November 17, 2011

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  conditions that favor such reproductions and the mediations that make it possible. KBC, the Hindi title of ...
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  Cellphone Footage as Witness and Instrument for Vigilante Justice

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  Fatma Matin Khan University of Delhi

  March 04, 2015

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  wrote “i made sure i humiliate him as much as possible because i know law will do nothing”. There has ...
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  Nights @ Indian Call Centers

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  James Daniel Elam Northwestern University

  October 26, 2009

  1 comment

  are possible when the other you’re "viewing" is otherwise unseeable? ...

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