William Mazzarella

Censorium

Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded in a close analysis of cinema regulation in the world's largest democracy, Censorium ultimately illuminates the elusive foundations of political and cultural sovereignty in mass-mediated societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353881
• ISBN-10: 0822353881
• Artikelnr.: 36694669

Autorenporträt

William Mazzarella is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India, also published by Duke University Press, and coeditor (with Raminder Kaur) of Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation From Sedition to Seduction.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. The Censor's Fist 1
1. Performative Dispensations: The Elementary Forms of Mass Publicity 29
2. Who the Hell Do the Censors Think They Are? Grounds of the Censor's
Judgment 76
3. We Are the Law! Censorship Takes to the Streets 115
4. Quotidian Eruptions: Aesthetic Distinction and the Extimate Squirm 156
5. Obscene Tendencies: Censorship and the Public Punctum 190
Notes 223
Bibliography 257
Index 275