Popular Culture in South Asian Context (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction??Part I: Performance, Ritual and Folk??1.?Secular “bhavs” of Remixed Dances: Dance Reality Shows as Soft Resistance??2.?The ‘High Seriousness’ of Comedy: Stand-up Comedy and the Tradition of Dissent??3.?From Behind the Mask: The?Jabulo?of the Khasis??4.?The Axiology of the?Lakhe and?Navdurga?Masked Ritual Dances of Nepal??5.?Asura, Danava, Rakshasa: Interpreting Popular Indian Myths from Dalit Perspectives??6.?Tales of Love, Passion, Murder, and History: Poet’s Songs from Barak Valley??7.?Sanjhi:?A Multihued Folk Festive Presence within an Over-arching Feminine Divinity??8.?Can Nauntanki be digital?: A Study of Nautanki Performances in the Post-Covid Era??9.?C?avi??un?takam?and Latin Christians: Becoming and Reviving Identity??10.?Musical Culture of Mourning Rituals: Liminality of the Orthodox and the Popular??11.?Only a Joke: Stand-up Comedy and Disability in the Indian Context??Part II: New Media Frames??12.?Breaking Stereotypes or Making Stereotypes: Hiphop?Dance in India??13.?Mourning, Cult, Fandom and its Tentative Figurations: A Case Study of Pop-star-turned- cleric Junaid Jamshed’s Death and Mourning on the Internet??14.?Cringe is the New binge: Matrimony, Desire and the Female Body in Netflix's Indian Matchmaking and Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives??15.?From Streets to You Tube:?Ladisha?as an Alternate (Hi)story-Teller??16.?Exploring the ‘Manosphere’: Analyzing Masculinities and the Politics of Red Pill in India across Social Media Platforms??Part III: Cinema and Identity??17.?Cultural Studies, Popular Hindi Cinema and the Question of Aesthetics??18.?Zindagi Tamasha?to?Kamli: Squeezing Space of Emergent Cinema of Pakistan??19.?Framing the Ecology of Fear??20.?Subverting the Popular Gaze in?Stree?(2018) and?Bulbbul?(2021)??21.?Dalit Sporting Imaginary and?Jhund??22.?“My Son Won’t Play Cricket for England”: Cricket, Patriarchy, and Diasporic Subjectivity in?Patiala House??23.?Screening Sainthood: Shifting Paradigms in the films on Vivekananda??24.?Surrogate Inc.: The Commercialization of Bollywood’s Surrogacy Narrative in the Neoliberal Age??25.?An Excavation of Identities through Indiana Jones??Part IV: Visual Figurations??26.?The Home and the World of Hindi Television Serials??27.?Troubling the Waters: Graphic Advocacy and the Indo-Sri Lankan Fisher Folk’s Tale??28.?Post-1971: Photographic Ambivalence, Archives, and the?Construction of National Identity of Bangladesh??29.?Talking Walls- Muted Femininity??30.?Popular Culture of Cynicism and its Satirical Expressions in Art: Notes from Contemporary Pakistan??31.?Re-viewing the Mythoepic in Indian Popular Imagination??Part V: Spatial Becomings??32.?Willkommen (“Welcome”) Bishan Singh to the Kit Kat Klub??33.?Unpacking Popular Culture from the Lens of Public Philosophy??34.?Popular Culture in Early Nationalist Imagination??35.?The World Ends in South Asia: Dilli Dystopias and the (Post-)Apocalypse??36.?“Oppositely Parallels”: A Visual Inquiry on Squeezing Female Spaces?????????????????????????????? ? ? ? ? ? ?