# Indian Popular Culture

- Institution: IIT Tirupati
- Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher: Prof. Bibhuti Mary Kachhap
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics
- Source: [NPTEL](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106505)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA](https://nptel.ac.in/faq) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106505)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The proposed course will facilitate students to interpret and develop theoretical understanding of Indian popular culture. The course will cover topics such as Indian Popular Culture and its history, comics and graphic narratives, rise of OTT platforms, visual narratives: films, series, and advertisements. It will also familiarize students with the interrelations between resistance, protests and their engagements with social media and popular culture.

Intended audience: Undergraduate students of any discipline

## Lectures

1. [What is Culture, Definitions of Popular Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/343ec831fb73) (YouTube)
2. [History and development of Popular Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/369930110e39) (YouTube)
3. [Mass Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/5182fa820c30) (YouTube)
4. [Sub Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/e8f7165bfc2a) (YouTube)
5. [Sub Cultures and Counterculture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/e835796f18b4) (YouTube)
6. [History and Understanding of India Popular Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/d5166d67d7f5) (YouTube)
7. [Implications of Cultural Studies in India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/e247902564cd) (YouTube)
8. [Desire for Cultural Studies in India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/fe5dde7154a5) (YouTube)
9. [Iconography](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/882bf6a410ce) (YouTube)
10. [Print Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/5d860742a7d1) (YouTube)
11. [Pre-history of Comics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/141230c36014) (YouTube)
12. [Regional Comic Space and Web Comics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/f7cd861af052) (YouTube)
13. [Cartoons - Emergence and History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/fbcccb95df88) (YouTube)
14. [Regional Space for Comics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/3e7cc5dacfe4) (YouTube)
15. [Emergence of Graphic Narratives](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/a2141c6856a5) (YouTube)
16. [Indian Cinema- History](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/41627674d4d9) (YouTube)
17. [Modernity and Popular](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/dc36a2cd7a7b) (YouTube)
18. [Globalization and Hindi Cinema](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/feb8dca2d082) (YouTube)
19. [contemporary popular and Celebrity Culture](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/07961d7bf121) (YouTube)
20. [Celebrity Studies and Indian Cinema](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/f2dbb950fd96) (YouTube)
21. [Visual Narrative: Advertisements](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/96403e9e1c5b) (YouTube)
22. [Indianness after 1960s](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/6dc304a67b52) (YouTube)
23. [Advertisement campaigns](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/19d5bac0c9d8) (YouTube)
24. [Advertisements: Political influence of brands](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/09597d8704f2) (YouTube)
25. [Constructing the Indian Consumer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/26b8fc09bb65) (YouTube)
26. [History of Television in India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/889a6f576235) (YouTube)
27. [Telefilms and Indian TV Serials](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/fa86f3e9f4c1) (YouTube)
28. [Television and OTT series for 21st Century](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/d916486b81ea) (YouTube)
29. [Benevolent Sexism on Screen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/291bab70bfe6) (YouTube)
30. [Ambivalent Sexism and Sexual Violence](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/d2e88261a581) (YouTube)
31. [History of OTT platforms](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/f39650c5b4bc) (YouTube)
32. [Impact of OTTs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/4daec719df0c) (YouTube)
33. [Art Vs Content](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/7baa01d7211e) (YouTube)
34. [Creative Economy Powering OTTs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/0e9124b89992) (YouTube)
35. [Webseries](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/378abd9fbf40) (YouTube)
36. [Theories of Conflict and Resistance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/de609f7ace14) (YouTube)
37. [Cyberculture and different types of digital divides, ethnographic methods](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/1935c8acde74) (YouTube)
38. [Features of Cyberculture and Cyberactivism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/23833608a43c) (YouTube)
39. [Cyberpolitics and the Millenials of India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/7ecbda174ae6) (YouTube)
40. [Cyberactivism and its impact on Social Movements](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/nptel/109106505/26d74ecad3cd) (YouTube)