Download or read book Media Portrayal of Sri Lankan Women Celebrities written by Warnakulasuriya Theodore and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, at an overall level, is a contribution to the scarce body of knowledge relating to the Sri-Lanka's political and media culture that helps to portray the real character of the established social and political system at large. The author argues, that while the image of men in politics is portrayed as strong, powerful, intelligent and rational, celebrity women are presented as charming, emotional, sympathetic and subservient with a feminine outlook which is traditionally pleasing to men. Wooing the beast of politics in Sri Lanka or in Asia is not a cakewalk especially for women.
Download or read book Substantive Representation of Women in Asian Parliaments written by Devin K. Joshi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with national parliamentarians from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyze and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia. As of the year 2022, no country in Asia has gender parity in its parliament. Meanwhile, the proportion of national-level women parliamentarians in Asia averages a mere 20%. What is more important than simple descriptive representation, however, is whether outcomes for women are improving. Rather than focusing on numerical representation, the chapters in this book focus on the substantive representation of women. In other words, what do women and men parliamentarians do to advance women’s well-being and gender equality? Using semi-structured interviews, the author of each chapter examines these efforts in the context of a specific Asian country. The case studies include Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Timor-Leste. The book is an essential resource for scholars and students of Asian politics and the politics of gender.
Download or read book South Asian Media Cultures written by Shakuntala Banaji and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements. In the context of such pressing issues as peace, conflict, democracy, politics, religion, class, ethnicity and gender, these essays explore the ways different groups of South Asians produce, understand and critique the media available to them.
Download or read book Media Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhist Fundamentalism and Minority Identities in Sri Lanka written by Tessa J. Bartholomeusz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-07-10 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of Sri Lanka's ethnic and religious minorities links the past with the present through a treatment of Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalist development in the late nineteenth century and its hegemony in the late twentieth.
Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular 20Th century Indian Actresses written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Star and Celebrity Confessional written by Sean Redmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the different manifestations, meanings, and processes of the star and celebrity confessional will be explored. The confessional is taken to be any moment in which a star, celebrity, or fan engages in revelatory acts that are considered to be authentic, heart-felt, and honest. These confessional encounters can take place in an interview, through performance and presentation events, online, and in ‘unscripted’ encounters. A star may break down in tears, or reveal a previously unknown truth about their private life. However, this authenticity is often found to have been manufactured, or is timed to occur against a new release or product launch. Alternatively, the desire to confess may be seen to draw attention to the centrality of pseudo forms of emotion in contemporary culture and the obsessional behaviour it produces. In this book authors consider acts of confession by celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, Jade Goody, Britney Spears, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tracey Emin, and Russell Crowe.
Download or read book Women of Sri Lanka written by Leelangi Wanasundera and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Focus On 100 Most Popular Actresses in Hindi Cinema written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Celebrity in Canada written by Lorraine Mary York and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon.
Download or read book Media Audiences written by Sue Turnbull and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the media and its audiences has always been a topic of research and debate. Media Audiences provides a comprehensive and succinct overview of the field of audience studies from the time of the printing press to an era characterized by online digital connectivity. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book offers a wealth of personal insight into the experience of undertaking audience research in order to illustrate the key methodological issues and challenges in the field. Addressing such topics as technologies, content and the people who are the subjects of audience research, the author challenges readers to think about the value of such research for themselves and for society at large. Comprehensive yet concise, this is essential reading for students of Media with an interest in audience studies.
Download or read book Ex Combatants Voices written by John D. Brewer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines. Ex-combatants are often overlooked and ignored in the post-conflict search for memory and understanding, resulting in their voice being excluded or distorted. This collection seeks to disclose something of the lived experience of ex-combatants who have made the transition from war to peace to help to understand some of the difficulties they have encountered in social and emotional reintegration in the wake of combat. These include: motivations and mobilizations to participation in military struggle; the material difficulties experienced in social reintegration after the war; the emotional legacies of conflict; the discourses they utilize to reconcile their past in a society moving forward from conflict toward peace; and ex-combatants’ subsequent engagement – or not – in peacebuilding. It also examines the contributions that former combatants have made to post-conflict compromise, reconciliation and peacebuilding. It focusses on male non-state actors, women, child soldiers and, unusually, state veterans, and complements previous volumes which captured the voices of victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. This volume speaks to those working in the areas of sociology, criminology, security studies, politics, and international relations, and professionals working in social justice and human rights NGOs.
Download or read book In the Limelight and Under the Microscope written by Diane Negra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely collection explores the politics of female celebrity across a range of contemporary and historical media contexts. Amidst concerns about the apparent 'decline' in the currency of modern fame ('famous for being famous'), as well as debates about the shifting parameters of public/private visibility, it is female celebrities who are positioned as the most active discursive terrain. This collection seeks to interrogate such phenomena by forging a greater conceptual, theoretical and historical dialogue between celebrity studies and critical gender studies. It takes as its starting point the understanding that female celebrity is a particularly fraught cultural phenomenon with ideological and industrial implications that warrant careful scrutiny. In moving across case studies from the 19th century to the present day, this book works from the assumption that the case study should play a crucial role in generating debate about the dialogue between 'past' and 'present', and the individual essays seek to reflect this spirit of enquiry
Download or read book Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women written by Cheris Kramarae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-16 with total page 2050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
Download or read book Unequal Opportunities written by Margaret Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNESCO pub. Monograph on unequal opportunities for women regarding their portrayal and participation in mass media - examines image, employment, working conditions, vocational training, etc. Of women in such media as radio, television, film and newspapers, the use of media in female development projects, widening of opportunities for women, etc., and includes a format (questionnaire) for media analysis. Bibliography pp. 207 to 221.
Download or read book Changing Lenses written by and published by Isis International, Manila Women's Information and Communication Service. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the books in this section are concerned with the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their role in development. Of particular interest in this regard is Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa. Another new title, Changing Lenses, looks at media policies and media monitoring, while Women's Voices on Fire documents how that radio service has provided a space for women's voices. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of women and the media in Asia and the Pacific, with a particular focus on violence against women. It comprises research done by ISIS International in the region and is also based on a multi-media forum organized by ISIS and UNIFEM at the 42nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in 1997. Offering a general look at media policies and media monitoring, the report also features ten country experiences. Together these reveal that, despite some headway made in the women-and-media situation, many issues still remain on the feminist agenda about the media's representation and portrayal of women.
Download or read book Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television written by Shoma Munshi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenon of prime time soap operas on Indian television. An anthropological insight into social issues and practices of contemporary India through the television, this volume analyzes the production of soaps within India’s cultural fabric. It deconstructs themes and issues surrounding the "everyday" and the "middle class" through the fiction of the "popular". In its second edition, this still remains the only book to examine prime time soap operas on Indian television. Without in any way changing the central arguments of the first edition, it adds an essential introductory chapter tracking the tectonic shifts in the Indian "mediascape" over the past decade – including how the explosion of regional language channels and an era of multiple screens have changed soap viewing forever. Meticulously researched and persuasively argued, the book traces how prime time soaps in India still grab the maximum eyeballs and remain the biggest earners for TV channels. The book will be of interest to students of anthropology and sociology, media and cultural studies, visual culture studies, gender and family studies, and also Asian studies in general. It is also an important resource for media producers, both in content production and television channels, as well as for the general reader.
