Fashioning a cosmopolitan Tamil Identity: Game shows, commodities and cultural identity

Media, Culture & Society

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 549-567

  Moorti, Sujata ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indian television; mobile genres; touristic iconography; vernacular nationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142714806     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443704044217     Document Type: Article

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