Publication subTitle :Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India
Author: William Mazzarella
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication year: 2003
E-ISBN: 9780822385196
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822331452
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780822331094
Subject: F7 Trade Economy
Language: ENG
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Description
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.
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