Soap Writing And Surviving Television In India

Author : Venita Coelho
Publisher : Collins India
ISBN 13 : 9788172239411
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soap! Writing and Surviving Television In India written by Venita Coelho and published by Collins India. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coelho formalizes writing for television, explains the rules, and does her best to create a new generation of thinking writers. This book does a good job of teaching how to write-not just for television but for any medium. It has clear guidelines, a whole range of helpful tools and a practical approach. A must-read for those with any sort of writing ambitions.'Siddharth MalhotraProducer, Cinevistaas Pvt. Ltd-Sanjeevani, Dil Mil Gaye, Crime Patrol, Jersey No. Ten'A book like this would have saved me years of hard lessons and much angst. Not only does it explain the art of writing in a practical and lucid manner, at every step of the way Coelho pushes you to raise your standards and to write to your full potential. Writers of every sort would benefit from the experience, the wisdom and the advice that she hands out.'Sandeep ShrivastavaWriter-New York, Ab Tak Chappan

Author : Shoma Munshi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000052249
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Jean Rouverol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing for the Soaps written by Jean Rouverol and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Venita Coelho
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357085270
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whisper in the Wind written by Venita Coelho and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'All the stories in the world are whispered in the wind. Listen! And the wind will blow one into your head.' These words, whispered by a madman, haunt Jamshed Fali Irani. The young heir to a business empire in Bombay, he is in Goa to try and pursue his dream of being a writer. Locked away in a crumbling, decrepit mansion, struggling to write as the monsoon rains down, the wind brings to him the cries of a little girl wandering the ruins nearby. Alice is trying to find her sister, Sara, who went missing years ago. Jamshed makes a reluctant promise to help her and finds himself drawn into a story that is darker and more intriguing than any he could have imagined. With his new friend, Tania, to whom he is increasingly drawn, Jamshed attempts to unravel the mystery behind Sara's disappearance. Jamshed's search leads him into a tangled tale of loyalty and deceit, at the heart of which lies murder. He has to find his way through a bewildering maze of contradictions as he tries to thread together answers to a mystery that involves a girl with the voice of an angel, a violin that plays the sorrows of the heart, and the bond between two friends who swear that not even death will do them part. In this vividly written Gothic novel, alive with the sights and smells of pre-Independence Goa, Venita Coelho tells a captivating, suspenseful, sweeping tale like no other.

Author : Sam Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604737174
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survival of Soap Opera written by Sam Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The soap opera, one of U.S. television's longest-running and most influential formats, is on the brink. Declining ratings have been attributed to an increasing number of women working outside the home and to an intensifying competition for viewers' attention from cable and the Internet. Yet, soaps' influence has expanded, with serial narratives becoming commonplace on most prime time TV programs. The Survival of Soap Opera investigates the causes of their dwindling popularity, describes their impact on TV and new media culture, and gleans lessons from their complex history for twenty-first-century media industries. The book contains contributions from established soap scholars such as Robert C. Allen, Louise Spence, Nancy Baym, and Horace Newcomb, along with essays and interviews by emerging scholars, fans and Web site moderators, and soap opera producers, writers, and actors from ABC's General Hospital, CBS's The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, and other shows. This diverse group of voices seeks to intervene in the discussion about the fate of soap operas at a critical juncture, and speaks to longtime soap viewers, television studies scholars, and media professionals alike.

Author : K. Moti Gokulsing
Publisher : Stylus Publishing, LLC.
ISBN 13 : 9781858563213
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soft-soaping India written by K. Moti Gokulsing and published by Stylus Publishing, LLC.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least one third of India's billion inhabitants regularly watch Indian soap operas, which have displaced popular cinema as the prime entertainment genre. And in the Indian diaspora on every Continent, Indian soap operas are a feature of life -- a source of pleasure, discussion and shared identity. This book characterizes the forms of these soap operas and relates how they have evolved. It explores how they have contributed to shaping the identity of modern India. Initially developed by the national telecast service, Doordoshan, specifically to convey messages about women's role, contraception and other family issues. Doordoshan also engaged viewers with serializations of the two great epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabarata. But with the onset of cable TV, soap operas became primarily entertainment driven and progressively more sensational. The book traces the impact of these different strands of soap operas and considers their impact on India's dominant concerns: the search for national unity, identity, the changing role of women, and the ideology of consumerism. "Soft Soaping India" is the first book to study Indian televised soap operas in all its forms and will be essential reading for students of the media and sociologists interested in India and its diaspora. It will also be relevant to Women's Studies.

Author : Kusum Lata
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783846551486
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family, Gender and Nation in Indian Television Serials written by Kusum Lata and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the representations of family, gender and nation in Hindi soap operas from the days of State-owned channel Doordarshan to the private transnational satellite channels. It traces the genesis of Indian soap opera on Doordarshan and private satellite channels and explores that the soaps on Doordarshan and satellite channels have different genesis, which is predominantly the reason behind the differences in their content and representations of gender and nation. While investigating the representation of family, gender and nation, the study found that there are three forces that shape the hegemonic understanding of being an Indian woman i.e. the Nehruvian State in the post-1947 India, liberalization and the militant growth of cultural nationalists.

Author : Kovid Gupta
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 935136304X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdom of the Soap Queen written by Kovid Gupta and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the entry of cable television in 1992, the television industry in India was poised for a gigantic leap. All that it needed was a fairy godmother to wave the magic wand. And it found one in Ekta Kapoor and Balaji Telefilms. Kingdom of the Soap Queen is the enchanting narrative of Balaji Telefilms. It is the story of how a laid-back seventeen-year-old became one of the most powerful women in global media, how a project kicked off by a teenager in her father's garage turned into the biggest entertainment provider across India. And like every fairy tale, this too has its share of magic, curses, spells, potions, and pixie dust. With insights from over a hundred television celebrities, Kovid Gupta - who has written for popular television shows Balika Vadhu, Bade Acche Lagte Hain and Chhan Chhan - chronicles the larger-than-life narrative right from the christening of the company in 1994 all the way to its transformation into the most influential production house of 2013. He not only depicts the initial struggles of the media house, but also explores every aspect of its growth - the creation of the iconic Tulsi and Parvati, its K-fixation, how it changed the very demographic of TV viewers in the country, the social impact of its daily soaps, the charges of being regressive that it has consistently battled, and the company's very successful and high-profile foray into cinema.This is the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of the 15,000 hours of television software that have made India laugh and cry for fifteen years.

Author : Annabelle Ferro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From SITE to soaps written by Annabelle Ferro and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gopal Saksena
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television in India written by Gopal Saksena and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: