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Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South India

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Item Code: HAM766
Author: Constantine V. Nakassis
Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
Language: English
Edition: 2016
ISBN: 9788125063018
Pages: 334
Cover: HARDCOVER
Other Details 9.5x6 inch
Weight 606 gm
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In Doing Style, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India. Through ethnographic descriptions of college life in urban Tamil Nadu, Nakassis examines what Tamil youth call "style": the display of ostentatious brand fashion, speaking in cosmopolitan English, or acting out bombastic film heroism, among other kinds of acts.

As Nakassis shows, acts of "doing style" express the ambivalent desires and anxieties of these youth who live in the shadows of global modernity. This ambivalence is reflected in the conflicted ways that youth do style. Among youth, what appear are not authentic but fake branded garments, not fluent English but English- peppered Tamil, and not imitations of film heroes but ironical and playful citations.

Doing Style also explores the connections among youth peer groups and the sites where such stylish objects are produced: textile workshops, music-television channels, and the Tamil film industry. Nakassis shows how these connections deeply condition the production and circulation of these media.

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