Violence In Media And Society : Literature Film and TV
Contents: Introduction. 1. The necessary burden of violence and the compulsive search for peace: sub continental realities of being in the world/Jasbir Jain. 2. Violence in creative and critical acts/Avadesh Kumar Singh. 3. Violence in the age of empire: an Indian consideration/Rajesh Kumar Sharma. 4. Innovative strategies to counter domestic violence: exploring the state and community responses in Karnataka and Gujarat/Veena Poonacha. 5. One hundred years of violence/Jose Sol Lucia. 6. Functions of violence: a study of caste violence in David Davidars The House of blue Mangoes/P.K. Kalyani. 7. Terrorism and violence: Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis queen of dreams and Kiran Desais The inheritance of loss/T.S. Anand and Manjinder Kaur. 8. Violence in Indian literature: some thoughts on domestic violence in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss/Silky Anand Khullar. 9. Nuances of gendered violence: Shashi Deshmande's The Dark Holds no Terrors/Jyoti K.Singh. 10. Partition violence in Jyotirmoyee Devi's The River Churning. A gendered perspective/Seema Malik. 11. Violent women in fiction by women writers/Usha Bande. 12. Victims of violence: a study of three stories form tribal and Dalit writing/Usha Bande. 13. Power violence nexus: Girish Karnads Tughlaq and Tale Danda/Vineeta Kaur Saluja and Shibani Basu Dubey. 14. A study of Chaplins film the great dictator violence as irrational laughable and avoidable/Shyamala Vanarase. 15. Power rangers: violent media and violent children/Anshu Kaushal. Index.
Living surrounded by violence, we have probably become immune to its impact and substituted the civilized culture with what may be called a culture of violence terrorism, conflicts, domestic, communal and gender violence, violence in its psychological and physical forms, socio-economic injustice, systemic, state and institutionalized violence, rape, arson, killings. You just name it and you see it in its myriad manifestations, diverse human contexts and various dehumanizing forms.
Violence signifies ‘force’ as well as ‘violation’. Over the past several decades, due to the rapid changes in social, economic, political and cultural environment, violence has become an ugly reality a lived reality that can only be experienced; words can merely report the happening but not its intensity which is felt only by the victim(s). Violence has been at the heart of intellectual debates all along human history. Literature has, from time to time, focused on societal obsession with violence. Cinema and TV too are now taking up the issue. Man seems to be tired of conflicts, wars, terrorism and such other acts of brutality.
This book seeks to explore the prevalence and representation of violence in the contemporary society. The articles contained in this anthology look at violence from various angles and mainly from the perspective of literature but the few papers on films, television, and those approaching violence from theoretical angle contribute to find patterns of violence in diverse ways. There are ‘kinds’ of violence and the literature surveyed here is only a minuscule part of the forms of violence that have infested the humankind.
