Sara Dickey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 100195 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Dickey |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Dickey |
| FIRMA | DICKEY S |
| AFILIACIONES | Bowdoin College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 229 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Conundrums of caste, history, and truth
Nadars occupy a uniquely disjunctive set of social positions in southern India. Historically viewed as one of the lowest ranked castes in the region, over the past two centuries they have also become one of the wealthiest. In negotiating identities and social status today, Nadars must balance the honour of their socioeconomic class with the continuing stigma of their caste. Part of this effort involves claims made on history to explain past and p…
Living Class in Urban India
Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can prod…
Apprehensions
In this article, I examine everyday ways in which residents of Madurai, Tamil Nadu work to gain and maintain recognition as middle class. In the intersubjective production of identities, people define not only what it takes to be a member of a specific local class category, but also what it means to be treated as fully human. I explore the critical importance of visibility and recognition in daily life, and the modes and meanings of the consumpti…
The Pleasures and Anxieties of Being in the Middle
Recent economic changes in India have coincided with a dramatic change in the concept of a 'middle class' in the south Indian city of Madurai. Whereas previous sets of class identities were overwhelmingly dichotomous (for example, the rich and the poor, or the 'big people' and 'those who have nothing'), the middle class has now become a highly elaborated component of local class structures and identities. It is also a contested category; moreover…
South Asian cinemas
In 1985, when scholarship on South Asian cinema was still scant and most of the non-trade press was scathingly dismissive, Rosie Thomas made a claim for viewing Indian cinema on its own terms. Thom
Stigmas of the Tamil Stage
Home and Hegemony
Permeable Homes
Servants' movements into and out of middle- and upper-class homes in the South Indian city of Madurai create a mixing of outside and inside spaces. Employers feel that this mixing threatens the security of their homes and class standing. Yet, because the presence of servants is a necessary marker of class, employers attempt to contain the threat by buttressing the symbolic boundaries of the household, controlling domestic workers' movements throu…
Anthropology and its contributions to studies of mass media
Kasthuri. Directed by Richard Breyer, produced by Richard Breyer and N. C. Rajamani (W & B Productions), 1993. Filmmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, 212-808-4980
Product Review| August 01 1995 Kasthuri Kasthuri. Directed by Richard Breyer, produced by Richard Breyer and N. C. Rajamani (W & B Productions), 1993. Filmmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, 212-808-4980. Sara Dickey Sara Dickey Bowdoin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 915–916. https://doi.org/10.2307/2059516 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures…
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
Introduction 2. Lives in Madurai 3. Activities and attitudes Part II: 4. History of Tamil cinema 5. Films 6. Film themes Part III: 7. Filmmakers 8. Audiences 9. Fan clubs and politics 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes List of references Index
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an analysis of the films themselves and the place they have in the lives of poor people, who organize fan clubs, discuss the films and the actors, and in vario…
The Politics of Adulation
Popular south Indian cinema is a highly melodramatic entertainment form, plotted around improbable twists of fate and set in exaggerated locales, filled with songs, dances, and fight scenes. Patronized primarily by the poor, it is typically dismissed by critics, who find its vast popularity either bemusing or indicative of viewers moral and intellectual degradation. Even more confounding for many observers has been cinema's critical role in state…
Local Politics
Dowry Systems in Complex Societies
Definition et analyse transculturelle des divers systemes de compensations matrimoniales et de dots a partir des travaux de J. Goody, G. P. Murdoch, D. R. White en particulier. Division sexuelle du travail, statut social partiellement ou totalement determinee par la richesse, incidence sur les relations de parente et sur l'economie
Permeable Homes
Servants' movements into and out of middle- and upper-class homes in the South Indian city of Madurai create a mixing of outside and inside spaces. Employers feel that this mixing threatens the security of their homes and class standing. Yet, because the presence of servants is a necessary marker of class, employers attempt to contain the threat by buttressing the symbolic boundaries of the household, controlling domestic workers' movements throu…
The Pleasures and Anxieties of Being in the Middle
Recent economic changes in India have coincided with a dramatic change in the concept of a 'middle class' in the south Indian city of Madurai. Whereas previous sets of class identities were overwhelmingly dichotomous (for example, the rich and the poor, or the 'big people' and 'those who have nothing'), the middle class has now become a highly elaborated component of local class structures and identities. It is also a contested category; moreover…
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
Introduction 2. Lives in Madurai 3. Activities and attitudes Part II: 4. History of Tamil cinema 5. Films 6. Film themes Part III: 7. Filmmakers 8. Audiences 9. Fan clubs and politics 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes List of references Index
Dowry Systems in Complex Societies
Definition et analyse transculturelle des divers systemes de compensations matrimoniales et de dots a partir des travaux de J. Goody, G. P. Murdoch, D. R. White en particulier. Division sexuelle du travail, statut social partiellement ou totalement determinee par la richesse, incidence sur les relations de parente et sur l'economie
The Politics of Adulation
Popular south Indian cinema is a highly melodramatic entertainment form, plotted around improbable twists of fate and set in exaggerated locales, filled with songs, dances, and fight scenes. Patronized primarily by the poor, it is typically dismissed by critics, who find its vast popularity either bemusing or indicative of viewers moral and intellectual degradation. Even more confounding for many observers has been cinema's critical role in state…
Anthropology and its contributions to studies of mass media
Apprehensions
In this article, I examine everyday ways in which residents of Madurai, Tamil Nadu work to gain and maintain recognition as middle class. In the intersubjective production of identities, people define not only what it takes to be a member of a specific local class category, but also what it means to be treated as fully human. I explore the critical importance of visibility and recognition in daily life, and the modes and meanings of the consumpti…
Dowry Systems in Complex Societies
Definition et analyse transculturelle des divers systemes de compensations matrimoniales et de dots a partir des travaux de J. Goody, G. P. Murdoch, D. R. White en particulier. Division sexuelle du travail, statut social partiellement ou totalement determinee par la richesse, incidence sur les relations de parente et sur l'economie
Local Politics
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an analysis of the films themselves and the place they have in the lives of poor people, who organize fan clubs, discuss the films and the actors, and in vario…
The Politics of Adulation
Popular south Indian cinema is a highly melodramatic entertainment form, plotted around improbable twists of fate and set in exaggerated locales, filled with songs, dances, and fight scenes. Patronized primarily by the poor, it is typically dismissed by critics, who find its vast popularity either bemusing or indicative of viewers moral and intellectual degradation. Even more confounding for many observers has been cinema's critical role in state…
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
Introduction 2. Lives in Madurai 3. Activities and attitudes Part II: 4. History of Tamil cinema 5. Films 6. Film themes Part III: 7. Filmmakers 8. Audiences 9. Fan clubs and politics 10. Conclusions Appendix Notes List of references Index
Kasthuri. Directed by Richard Breyer, produced by Richard Breyer and N. C. Rajamani (W & B Productions), 1993. Filmmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, 212-808-4980
Product Review| August 01 1995 Kasthuri Kasthuri. Directed by Richard Breyer, produced by Richard Breyer and N. C. Rajamani (W & B Productions), 1993. Filmmakers Library, 124 East 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016, 212-808-4980. Sara Dickey Sara Dickey Bowdoin College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (3): 915–916. https://doi.org/10.2307/2059516 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures…
Anthropology and its contributions to studies of mass media
Permeable Homes
Servants' movements into and out of middle- and upper-class homes in the South Indian city of Madurai create a mixing of outside and inside spaces. Employers feel that this mixing threatens the security of their homes and class standing. Yet, because the presence of servants is a necessary marker of class, employers attempt to contain the threat by buttressing the symbolic boundaries of the household, controlling domestic workers' movements throu…
Home and Hegemony
Stigmas of the Tamil Stage
South Asian cinemas
In 1985, when scholarship on South Asian cinema was still scant and most of the non-trade press was scathingly dismissive, Rosie Thomas made a claim for viewing Indian cinema on its own terms. Thom
The Pleasures and Anxieties of Being in the Middle
Recent economic changes in India have coincided with a dramatic change in the concept of a 'middle class' in the south Indian city of Madurai. Whereas previous sets of class identities were overwhelmingly dichotomous (for example, the rich and the poor, or the 'big people' and 'those who have nothing'), the middle class has now become a highly elaborated component of local class structures and identities. It is also a contested category; moreover…
Apprehensions
In this article, I examine everyday ways in which residents of Madurai, Tamil Nadu work to gain and maintain recognition as middle class. In the intersubjective production of identities, people define not only what it takes to be a member of a specific local class category, but also what it means to be treated as fully human. I explore the critical importance of visibility and recognition in daily life, and the modes and meanings of the consumpti…
Living Class in Urban India
Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can prod…
Conundrums of caste, history, and truth
Nadars occupy a uniquely disjunctive set of social positions in southern India. Historically viewed as one of the lowest ranked castes in the region, over the past two centuries they have also become one of the wealthiest. In negotiating identities and social status today, Nadars must balance the honour of their socioeconomic class with the continuing stigma of their caste. Part of this effort involves claims made on history to explain past and p…
Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (9 obras) · History (7 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Geography (4 obras) · Movie theater (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras)