Books written by William Mazzarella
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Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment
“Vogue, Burda Moda, Nickerman, Quille, Cardin, Nina Ricci. . . . Every suit was a thousand or two. The boots cost six or seven hundred. The cosmetics—Max Factor, Chanel, Christian Dior. . . . This was our trade union. Intergirls.
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Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India
... Robert Foster, Susan Gal, Keith Hart, Raminder Kaur, Tanya Luhr- mann, Merete Mazzarella, Rebecca McLennan, Jennifer Moore, Christian Novetzke, Peter Phipps, Arvind Rajagopal, Peter Redfield, Dani- lyn Rutherford, Kathleen Stewart, ...
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The Mana of Mass Society
We often invoke the “magic” of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In The Mana of Mass Society, William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously.
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Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
International news channels broke the story early saturday morning, and by the time nepal awoke, the outside world was beginning to hear about it. Inside the country, however, there was little information to be had. In the print press, ...
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Censorship in South Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction
'Censorship in South Asia' explores the cultural politics behind the debate, from colonial paintings to onscreen kisses and nuclear secrets.
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Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India
Students of global forms of modernity will have much to learn from this book."--Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of "Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies"
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Sovereignty, Inc.: Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment
... Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003); “Culture, Globalization, Mediation,” Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004): 345–67; and The Mana of Mass Society. 73. See ...
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Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity
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.