Rated a: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India Volume 8 by Mini, Darshana Sreedhar

Rated a: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India Volume 8

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Rated a: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India Volume 8 by Mini, Darshana Sreedhar

Rated a: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India Volume 8

$131.93

Rated a: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India Volume 8

$131.93
Author: Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

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.

Author: Darshana Sreedhar Mini
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/06/2024
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520397453

About the Author
Darshana Sreedhar Mini is Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and coeditor of South Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene.

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