Shoveling Smoke

Author : William Mazzarella
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385198
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoveling Smoke written by William Mazzarella and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized images it produces to promote the KamaSutra condom brand. Another agency struggles to reconcile the global ambitions of a cellular-phone service provider with the ambivalently local connotations of the client’s corporate brand. When the dream of the 250 million-strong “Indian middle class” goes sour, Indian advertising and marketing professionals search for new ways to market “the Indian consumer”—now with added cultural difference—to multinational clients. An examination of the complex cultural politics of mass consumerism in a globalized marketplace, Shoveling Smoke is a pathbreaking and detailed ethnography of the contemporary Indian advertising industry. It is also a critical and innovative intervention into current theoretical debates on the intersection of consumerist globalization, aesthetic politics, and visual culture. William Mazzarella traces the rise in India during the 1980s of mass consumption as a self-consciously sensuous challenge to the austerities of state-led developmentalism. He shows how the decisive opening of Indian markets to foreign brands in the 1990s refigured established models of the relationship between the local and the global and, ironically, turned advertising professionals into custodians of cultural integrity.

Author : Austin Davis
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452125023
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoveling Smoke written by Austin Davis and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Houston lawyer’s attempt to escape the rat race backfires with hilarious results in Davis’s thoroughly enjoyable debut crime novel” (Publishers Weekly). Reveling in outrageous shenanigans and hilariously off-kilter characters, Shoveling Smoke does for East Texas what Carl Hiaasen’s novels do for South Florida. Burned-out corporate lawyer Clay Parker chucks it all and moves from Houston to a tiny firm in a dusty small town, searching for his lost integrity and a simpler life. Instead, he lands in the middle of a bungled fraud case defending the disreputable and downright nasty Bevo Rasmussen, accused of torching the stables housing his over-insured thoroughbreds. Immediately confronted with corrupt officials, crazed survivalists, an incompetent hit man, an emu, and a naked county clerk, along with an assortment of vengeful wives and great barbecue, Clay discovers that nothing about his case—or in East Texas—is what it seems.

Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781885941152
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoveling Smoke written by Margaret Maron and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twenty-two short mystery stories by Margaret Maron, including selections that feature her recurring characters, Judge Deborah Knott, and Lieutanant Sigrid Harald.

Author : William Thomas Stephen Mazzarella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoveling Smoke written by William Thomas Stephen Mazzarella and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Mazzarella
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353881
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Censorium written by William Mazzarella and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because of what they understand, what they feel, or what they might imagine? At the intersection of anthropology, media studies, and critical theory, Censorium is a pathbreaking analysis of Indian film censorship. 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. Exploring breaks and continuities in film censorship across colonial and postcolonial moments, William Mazzarella argues that the censors' obsessive focus on the unacceptable content of certain images and the unruly behavior of particular audiences displaces a problem that they constantly confront yet cannot directly acknowledge: the volatile relation between mass affect and collective meaning. Grounded in a close analysis of cinema regulation in the world's largest democracy, Censorium ultimately brings light to the elusive foundations of political and cultural sovereignty in mass-mediated societies.

Author : E. Comor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582990
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption and the Globalization Project written by E. Comor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-29 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that capitalist consumption facilitates efforts to rule through consent.

Author : Guy Kawasaki
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781591842231
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Check written by Guy Kawasaki and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reality Check is Guy Kawasaki's all-In-one guide for starting and operating great organizations - ones that stand the test of time and ignore any passing fads in business theory. This volume collects, updates, and expands the best entries from his popular blog and features his inimitable take on everything from effective e-mailing to sucking up to preventing "bozo explosions.""--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Adrian Rogers
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805426914
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unveiling the End Times in Our Time written by Adrian Rogers and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conducted from a premillennial and pretribulational point of view, this study of the Book of Revelation explores the theme that America ultimately will separate from Israel and what prophetically will happen.

Author : Raminder Kaur
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253353351
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Censorship in South Asia written by Raminder Kaur and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Censorship in South Asia' explores the cultural politics behind the debate, from colonial paintings to onscreen kisses and nuclear secrets.

Author : Frank B. Cross
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804757133
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision Making in the U.S. Courts of Appeals written by Frank B. Cross and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the decisions of the United States circuit courts and their grounding in law and judicial ideology.