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  A Family Drama: Television and the fight for the national family

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  Aswin Punathambekar University of Michigan

  April 02, 2008

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  of differentiation (AXN’s “elite weekends,” for e.g.), it is surprising to learn about a new channel ...
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  BollyWood for the Trees

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  Vamsee Juluri University of San Francisco

  March 12, 2007

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  BollyWood for the Trees Bollywood Orientalism parody The Simpsons otherness pastiche postcolonialism totems Curator's Note Does America get it right when it looks at Indian cinema? This Simpsons episode shows detail (e.g. Kannada shop signs) and orie ...
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  Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future

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  Barton Scott Montana State University

  March 17, 2009

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  Bollywood Bad: Toward an Aesthetics of the Failed Future Sci-fi Bollywood bad movies Curator's Note Love Story 2050 (dir. Harry Baweja, 2008), despite massive promotion and glitzy special effects, flopped hard—it was, to steal a joke from another fil ...
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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K.

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  Shanti Kumar University of Texas at Austin

  April 17, 2007

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  Television and Reality: The Politics of Representation in Celebrity Big Brother, U.K. South Asian Shilpa Shetty reality TV racism Jane Goody intersectionality international TV formats diaspora class channel 4 Britain Bollywood Big Brother Curator's N ...