{"product_id":"censorship-in-south-asia-cultural-regulation-from-sedition-to-seduction-paperback-softback-9780253220936","title":"Censorship in South Asia; Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253220936","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCensorship in South Asia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRaminder Kaur (Edited by), William Mazzarella (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253220936\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 June 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 19 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time to reveal its ever-contested presence in Indian cinema and beyond.November 1, 2009\"—Maria Khan, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[T]his insightful volume on a neglected topic shows that means and modes of censorship have kept pace with the mediums of communication, on grounds not dissimilar to the justification offered during the Raj.\"—\u003ci\u003eContemporary South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The contributors to this volume investigate a wide range of cultural regulation, from cinema to painting, blasphemy to official secrecy and even advertising to nuclear culture. The essays enlighten readers and provide better understanding of the concept of censorship.\"—\u003ci\u003eSouth Asia Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[The] compelling volume Censorship in South Asia steps away from the media spectacle and, with great insight and precision, places such contemporary cases of public agitation and regulation in their regional and historical context. To do so, the editors . . . expand the idea of censorship beyond juridical repression exercised in the quiet of the state's backrooms and instead place it within a larger domain of 'cultural regulation'.33.1 2010\"—\u003ci\u003eSouth Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is an exciting and innovative volume that will become the standard reference in the field for some time to come.\"—Thomas Blom Hansen, author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCensorship in South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e 1. Between Sedition and Seduction: Thinking Censorship in South Asia\u003cbr\u003e William Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur\u003cbr\u003e 2. Iatrogenic Religion and Politics\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Pinney\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Sense of the Cinema in Late Colonial India\u003cbr\u003e William Mazzarella\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Limits of Decency and the Decency of Limits: Censorship and the Bombay Film Industry\u003cbr\u003e Tejaswini Ganti\u003cbr\u003e 5. Anxiety, Failure, and Censorship in Indian Advertising\u003cbr\u003e Angad Chowdhry\u003cbr\u003e 6. Nuclear Revelations\u003cbr\u003e Raminder Kaur\u003cbr\u003e 7. Specters of Macaulay: Blasphemy, the Indian Penal Code, and Pakistan's Postcolonial Predicament\u003cbr\u003e Asad Ali Ahmed\u003cbr\u003e 8. After the Massacre: Secrecy, Disbelief, and the Public Sphere in Nepal\u003cbr\u003e Genevieve Lakier\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525936410904,"sku":"9780253220936","price":18.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/censorship-in-south-asia-cultural-regulation-from-sedition-to-seduction-paperback-softback-9780253220936","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}