South Asian media cultures : audiences, representations, contexts / edited by Shakuntala Banaji.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Shakuntala Banaji -- Talking back to 'Bollywood': Hindi commercial cinema in North-East India / Daisy Hasan -- 'Adverts make me want to break the television': Indian children and their audiovisual media environment in three contrasting locations / Shakuntala Banaji -- Urdu for image: understanding Bangladeshi cinema through its theatres / Lotte Hoek -- Musical media and cosmopolitanisms in Nepal's popular music, 1950-2006 / Paul D. Greene -- Private satellite media and the geo-politics of moderation in Pakistan / Tahir H. Naqvi -- Forgetting to remember: the privatisation of the public, the economization of Hindutva, and the medialisation of genocide / Britta Ohm -- Myth- the national form: Mission Istanbul and Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema / Noorel Mecklai -- A peace of soap: representations of peace and conflict in popular teledramas in Sri Lanka / Neluka Silva -- Destigmatising star texts - honour and shame among Muslim women in Pakistani cinema / Irna Qureshi -- Through the lens of a 'branded criminal': the politics of marginal cinema in India / Rashmi Sawhney -- Pakistani students' uses of new media to construct a narrative of dissent / Saman Talib -- Expanding the art of the possible: leveraging citizen journalism and user generated content (USG) for peace in Sri Lanka / Sanjana Hattotuwa -- Conclusion / Shakuntala Banaji.