{"product_id":"rated-a-darshana-sreedhar-mini-9780520397453","title":"Rated a: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India Volume 8","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In \u003ci\u003eRated A\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Darshana Sreedhar Mini\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520397452\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520397453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.70d","brand":"Darshana Sreedhar Mini","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45981044375807,"sku":"9780520397453","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_608ef917-204f-4476-860c-97e3f7f5aa11.jpg?v=1722417576","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rated-a-darshana-sreedhar-mini-9780520397453","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}