Beschreibung:
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.
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