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1 online resource. |
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Feminist media histories ; 8 |
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Feminist media histories (Series) ; 8.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Subject |
Pornographic films -- India -- Kerala -- 20th century.
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Pornographic film industry -- India -- Kerala -- 20th century.
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Films pornographiques -- Inde -- Kerala -- 20e siècle.
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Films pornographiques -- Industrie -- Inde -- Kerala -- 20e siècle.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mini, Darshana Sreedhar, 1986- Rated A Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 9780520397453 (DLC) 2023054323 |
| ISBN |
9780520397460 (ebook) |
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0520397460 |
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9780520397453 (paperback) |
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