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Rated A : Soft-Porn Cinema And Mediations Of Desire In India
Darshana Sreedhar Mini
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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 who are marked by their involvement with a taboo form negotiate their social lives. 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.
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| Author | Darshana Sreedhar Mini |
| Publisher | Zubaan |
| Language | English |
| Binding Type | Paper Back |
| Non Fiction | Society & Culture |
| ISBN13 | 9789390514830 |
| SKU | BK 0186662 |
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