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| 791.43092 ASE/IR IRRFAN KHAN : The Man,The Dreamer,The Star | 791.43092 BHA/AD ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN: A LIFE IN CINEMA | 791.43092 BOG/EL ELIZABETH AND MICHAEL : QUEEN OF HOLLYEOOD - LOV ESTORY | 791.43092 DAR RATED A Soft - porn cinema and mediations of desire in India | 791.43092 DEM/IN INSIDE OUT : Memoir | 791.43092 DEV THROUGH THE EYES OF A CINEMATOGRAPHER : | 791.43092 DEV/AP APARNA SEN : Life In Cinema |
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 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.
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