Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India
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Publisher : Zubaan
Total Pages : 327
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ISBN-10 : 9789390514984
ISBN-13 : 9390514983
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Download or read book Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India written by Darshana Sreedhar Mini and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2024-09-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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