Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity - Couverture souple

Mazzarella, William

 
9780822353881: Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity
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ISBN 10 : 0822353881 ISBN 13 : 9780822353881
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2013

Synopsis

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?

At the intersection of anthropology, media studies, and critical theory, Censorium is a pathbreaking analysis of Indian film censorship. The book encompasses two moments of moral panic: the consolidation of the cinema in the 1910s and 1920s, and the global avalanche of images unleashed by liberalization since the early 1990s. Exploring breaks and continuities in film censorship across colonial and postcolonial moments, William Mazzarella argues that the censors' obsessive focus on the unacceptable content of certain images and the unruly behavior of particular audiences displaces a problem that they constantly confront yet cannot directly acknowledge: the volatile relation between mass affect and collective meaning. Grounded in a close analysis of cinema regulation in the world's largest democracy, Censorium ultimately brings light to the elusive foundations of political and cultural sovereignty in mass-mediated societies.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822353881
ISBN 13 
9780822353881
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0822353741 ISBN 13 :  9780822353744
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2013
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