by Brian Bergen-Aurand Thus, censorship emerges as a dynamic activity. Taking my cues from Foucault and Kuhn, I seek to show that power is a relation and not a possession by placing censorship in dialogue with film production and reception. ~Monika Mehta From the start, Monika Mehta’s Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema (University of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Democracy, Borrowing, Lending, and Sharing (part 1)
by Brian Bergen-Aurand If God had wanted it, he would have made you a single community, but he wanted, the Koran tells us [5:48], to test you through the gift of difference. ~Mustapha Chérif, Islam and the West I believe that what distinguishes the idea of democracy from all other ideas of political regimes—monarchy, aristocracy, … Continue reading
Foreign Influence 