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Rated A : soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India / Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Feminist media histories ; 8Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9780520397460
- 791.43/6538 23/eng/20240111
- PN1995.9.S45
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Summary: "In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A, Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped Malayalam soft-porn cinema-such as vernacular pulp fiction, illustrated erotic tales, and American exploitation cinema-and maps the genre's circulation among blue-collar workers of the Indian diaspora in the Middle East, where pirated versions circulate alongside low-budget Bangladeshi films and Pakistani mujra dance films as South Asian pornography. Through a mix of archival and ethnographic research, Mini also explores the soft-porn industry's utilization of gendered labor and trust-based arrangements, as well as how actresses and production personnel negotiate their social lives when marked by their involvement with a taboo form. By locating the tense negotiations between sexuality, import policy, and censorship in contemporary India, this study offers a model for understanding film genres outside of screen space, emphasizing that they constitute not just industrial formations but entire fields of social relations and gendered imaginaries"--PPN: PPN: 1916210856Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Introduction: soft-porn -- Madakarani : the screen pleasures of the sex siren in Malayalam cinema -- Waiting for Kodambakkam : economies of waiting and labor in Tinsel Town -- Embodied vulnerabilities : precarity and body work -- The alternative transnational : migration, media, and soft-porn -- (Dis)appearances : digital remediations of soft-porn in the contemporary -- Conclusion : in praise of bad women.
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