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: xii, 219 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen, Karten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Feminist media histories ; 8
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39745-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Kerala / (s)Sexfilm / (z)Geschichte 1900-2000
• Schlagwörter: (s)Malayalam / (s)Erotischer Film / (z)Geschichte 1900-2000
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Mini, Darshana Sreedhar, - 1986-: Rated A. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 219 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 1878248855

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"--