Feminist Media Histories
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Feminist Media Histories

Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

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Feminist Media Histories

Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

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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 studyoffers 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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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9780520397460
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Subvention
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Soft-Porn 101
  9. 1. Madakarani: The Screen Pleasures of the Sex Siren in Malayalam Cinema
  10. 2. Waiting for Kodambakkam: Economies of Waiting and Labor in Tinsel Town
  11. 3. Embodied Vulnerabilities: Precarity and Body Work
  12. 4. The Alternative Transnational: Migration, Media, and Soft-Porn
  13. 5. (Dis)Appearances: Digital Remediations of Soft-Porn in the Contemporary
  14. Conclusion: In Praise of Bad Women
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography