Rated A : soft-porn cinema and mediations of desire in India / Darshana Sreedhar Mini.
"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...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Feminist media histories (Series) ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: soft-porn
- Madakarani : the screen pleasures of the sex siren in Malayalam cinema
- Waiting for Kodambakkam : economies of waiting and labor in Tinsel Town
- Embodied vulnerabilities : precarity and body work
- The alternative transnational : migration, media, and soft-porn
- (Dis)appearances : digital remediations of soft-porn in the contemporary
- Conclusion : in praise of bad women.