Visual Cultures in India - by Arzuman Ara (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book unpacks the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India, offering a critical lens for navigating our image-saturated world. This edited collection explores how we experience visuals beyond just seeing, while examining their creation, display, and interpretation across media.

Book Synopsis

This book unpacks the complex relationship between media and visual culture in India, offering a critical lens for navigating our image-saturated world. This edited collection explores how we experience visuals beyond just seeing, while examining their creation, display, and interpretation across media.

Review Quotes

This volume presents innovative research on the new importances that visuality continues to acquire in India. Adopting 'lived cosmopolitanism' as an analytical lens, its contributions explore how images and seeing attain new significances in the context of the continually evolving relationship between India's rapidly expanding cities and its non-urban environments. Visual Cultures in India is therefore a much-needed addition to existing scholarship on the visual, and its manifold interpretations.

This wide-ranging collection of essays beautifully captures ways of seeing as a terrain of contested meaning, thereby providing vital insights into contemporary cultural productions in India and their relation to the search for truth.

Visual cultures in India are incredibly diverse and rich, reflecting the country's complex history, religious practices, regional traditions, and contemporary influences. In today's age of visual cultures represented in many and varied forms from traditional graphics to digital platforms, a book like Visual Cultures in India critically revisits the iconization and visualization of the cultural tropes making the volume a significant academic contribution. Its interdisciplinary approach makes it outstandingly accomplished to cater to the needs of researches in Visual Studies, Media Studies, Culture Studies, and India Studies.

About the Author

Arzuman Ara is associate professor of English Language Education in the English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong Campus.