Rated A

• Verfasst von: Mini, Darshana Sreedhar [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Rated A
• Titelzusatz: soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India
• Verf.angabe: Darshana Sreedhar Mini
• Verlagsort: Oakland, California
• Verlag: University of California Press
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 219 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Feminist media histories ; 8
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39746-0
• Schlagwörter: (g)Kerala / (s)Sexfilm / (z)Geschichte 1900-2000
• Schlagwörter: (s)Malayalam / (s)Erotischer Film / (z)Geschichte 1900-2000
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Mini, Darshana Sreedhar, 1986 - : Rated A. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2024. - xii, 219 Seiten
• K10plus-PPN: 1898082197
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

"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"--