Overview
- Provides an academic perspective on the comedy/society interface in a region where issues of censorship continue to dominate cultural industries
- Explores the nuances of what could be termed “the new funny” from the generation of “New Indian Nuttahs”
- Contributes to debates relevant to cultural industries and practitioners
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)
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This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India. It provides a unique analysis into the growing phenomenon of internet comedy and into a dimension of Indian popular culture which has long been dominated by the traditional film and television industries. Through a mixture of close textual readings of online comedy videos and interviews with content creators and consumers in India, this book provides a fresh perspective on comedy studies in its approach to a global South context from a sociocultural perspective. As a protean form of new media, this has opened up new avenues of articulation, identification and disidentification and as such, this book makes a further contribution to South Asian, communication, media & cultural studies.
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About the author
Kavyta Kay is a University of London Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK. Her research interests lie in intersectional ways of thinking through race, gender and sexuality from multiple platforms whether academic, popular culture or social.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Indian Nuttahs
Book Subtitle: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India
Authors: Kavyta Kay
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97867-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97866-6Published: 02 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07420-3Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97867-3Published: 19 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-4332
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4340
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 88
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Culture , Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural Theory, Asian Culture, Comedy Studies