Darshana Sreedhar Mini <br/><br/>
RATED A  Soft - porn cinema and mediations of desire in India  

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 - New Delhi  Zubaan  2024 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789390514830 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Purchased  Prism Books, Kadavanthra 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cinema - Porn Cinema<br/>Motion pictures<br/>Pornographic film industry India Kerala 20th century<br/>Pornographic films India Kerala 20th century
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>791.43092  / DAR