{"product_id":"rated-a-soft-porn-cinema-and-mediations-of-desire-in-india-volume-8-9780520397453","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarshana Sreedhar Mini\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSouth Asian Pornographies: Vernacular Formations of the Permissible and the Obscene.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50916216013074,"sku":"9780520397453","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b55214f6-5819-44d9-b4a0-29ad235b8793.jpg?v=1738844697","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rated-a-soft-porn-cinema-and-mediations-of-desire-in-india-volume-8-9780520397453","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}