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This text looks at how the production of cinema as commodity intersects with its production of subjectivities, how the transformation of the business of cinema was a central feature of the reorganisation of cultural production and also reveals the significance of culture in neoliberalism.

This book traces the heightened time-consciousness - including the image of the 'new global generation' and anxieties over the relationship between generations - that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses - across cinema, television, print and consumer culture - and argues that these anxieties concerning time are a symptom of the struggle between labour and capital. The volume thus investigates the obsession with time in con...

This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses - across cinema, television, print and consumer culture - and argues that these anxieties concerning time are symptomatic of the struggle between labor and capital. Drawing on critical theory, cinema and media studies and Marxist-feminist concepts, Kapur shows how the recent political-economic shift in India toward neoliberalism has...

In Coining for Capital, Jyostna Kapur explores the evolution of the concept of childhood from its portrayal in the eighteenth century as a pure, innocent, and idyllic state - the opposite of adulthood - to its expression today as a mere variation of adulthood, complete with characteristics of sophistication, temptation, and corruption.

In this edited volume, an international ensemble of scholars looks at how the world¿s various cinemas, including Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S., have variously performed, contested, and reinforced the worldwide transition to neoliberalism. Grounded in Marxist theory, the volume considers how the contradictions of capital, both as culture and commerce, have played out globally in contemporary media culture.