Amrita Shah

About: Former Time Magazine Editor | Scholarly Journalist | Author of ‘Ahmedabad: A City in the World’ | Media and Television Aficionado

BOOK

Name: Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India

Publisher Name: Sage Publishing

Genre: Arts History, Theory And Criticism

Description:

About ‘Telly-Guillotined’: Telly-Guillotined: How Television Changed India tells the story of how technology was usurped, first by propagandists, then by the market. Going behind the scenes of the world's greatest media explosion, this book describes the impact of consumerism on the newsroom, the shaping of a new cultural politics and the rise of a new politics of seduction. In a landscape of technological innovation, blurred boundaries and sensory overload, Amrita Shah paint a picture of the Fourth Estate's challenging future.

“This is a text that navigates seamlessly between reportage, social analysis, and personal memoir. It brings policy debates alive and mines everyday experience for its structural significance.”- William Mazzarella, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.