Censorship in South Asia : cultural regulation from sedition to seduction / edited by Raminder Kaur, William Mazzarella.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaur, Raminder.

Mazzarella, William, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Censorship--India.

Censorship.

Censorship--South Asia.

Physical Description:

vii, 243 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 relation to its apparent opposite, "publicity." The contributors investigate a wide range of public cultural phenomena, from the cinema to advertising, from street politics to political communication, and from the adjudication of blasphemy to the management of obscenity.

Contents:

Between sedition and seduction : thinking censorship in South Asia / William Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur

Iatrogenic religion and politics / Christopher Pinney

Making sense of the cinema in late colonial India / William Mazzarella

The limits of decency and the decency of limits : censorship and the Bombay film industry / Tejaswini Ganti

Anxiety, failure, and censorship in Indian advertising / Angad Chowdhry

Nuclear revelations / Raminder Kaur

Specters of Macaulay : blasphemy, the Indian penal code, and Pakistan's postcolonial predicament / Asad Ali Ahmed

After the massacre : secrecy, disbelief, and the public sphere in Nepal / Genevieve Lakier.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-53979-5

9786612539794

0-253-00395-4

OCLC:

607553760