Cut-pieces : celluloid obscenity and popular cinema in Bangladesh /

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Imagine 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 Banglades...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoek, Lotte (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Colección:South Asia across the disciplines.
Temas:
Motion pictures in ethnology > Bangladesh.
B films > Bangladesh.
Cinéma en ethnologie > Bangladesh.
Films de série B > Bangladesh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
B films
Manners and customs
Motion pictures in ethnology
Bangladesh > Social life and customs.
Bangladesh
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Imagine 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. Hoek's innovative ethnography plots the making and reception of Mintu the Murderer (2005),
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231535151
0231535155

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