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Tupur Chatterjee, "Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India" (NYU Press, 2025)

New Books in Sociology

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Exploring Domestic Media Technologies and Their Impact on Modernity

This chapter explores an upcoming research project that investigates the impact of domestic media technologies like television and VCR on daily life and societal aspirations in South Asia from the 1970s to the early 2000s. It aims to highlight the transformation of middle-class modernity within the home, building on previous studies of urban media infrastructures.

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