Introduction: the censor's fist -- Performative dispensations : the elementary forms of mass publicity -- Who the hell do the censors think they are? Grounds of the censor's judgment -- We are the law! Censorship takes to the streets -- Quotidian eruptions : aesthetic distinction and the extimate squirm -- Obscene tendencies : censorship and the public punctum
Summary
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
