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In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because of what they understand, what they feel, or what they might imagine?
Censorium is an innovative analysis of Indian film censorship. William Mazzarella argues that we ...
Censorship in South Asia offers an expansive and comparative exploration of cultural regulation in contemporary and colonial South Asia. These provocative essays by leading scholars broaden our understanding of what censorship might mean beyond the simple restriction and silencing of public communication by considering censorship’s productive potential and its intimate relationship to its apparent opposite, publicity. The contributors investigate a wide ...
This is a pathbreaking ethnographic study of mass consumerism in India's globalized marketplace. Since the opening of the Indian consumer market in the 1990s, the advertising industry has become a centre of mediation between the global and the local. William Mazzarella analyses these and develops an interpretation of the cultural politics of consumerism. Shoveling Smoke is a critical and innovative intervention into current debates on the intersection of ...