{"product_id":"cut-pieces-lotte-hoek-9780231162890","title":"Cut-Pieces: Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh","description":"\u003cp\u003eImagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh. Exploring the shadowy world of these clips and their place in South Asian film culture, Lotte Hoek builds a rare, detailed portrait of the production, consumption, and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHoek's innovative ethnography plots the making and reception of \u003ci\u003eMintu the Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e (2005, \u003ci\u003epseud\u003c\/i\u003e.), a popular, Bangladeshi B-quality action movie and fascinating embodiment of the cut-piece phenomenon. She begins with the early scriptwriting phase and concludes with multiple screenings in remote Bangladeshi cinema halls, following the cut-pieces as they appear and disappear from the film, destabilizing its form, generating controversy, and titillating audiences. Hoek's work shines an unusual light on Bangladesh's state-owned film industry and popular practices of the obscene. She also reframes conceptual approaches to South Asian cinema and film culture, drawing on media anthropology to decode the cultural contradictions of Bangladesh since the 1990s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lotte Hoek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231162898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231162890\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Lotte Hoek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44201688793343,"sku":"9780231162890","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_39c3e00f-dd65-445f-bfbc-0607c8afa77c.jpg?v=1691490833","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cut-pieces-lotte-hoek-9780231162890","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}