| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
South Asia Across the Disciplines |
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South Asia across the disciplines.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Before Mintu the Murderer -- 1. Writing Gaps -- 2. A Handheld Cam era Twist ed Rapidly -- 3. Actress /Character -- 4. Cutting and Splicing -- 5. Noise -- 6. Unstable Celluloid -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Before Mintu the Murderer -- 1. Writing Gaps -- 2. A Handheld Cam era Twist ed Rapidly -- 3. Actress /Character -- 4. Cutting and Splicing -- 5. Noise -- 6. Unstable Celluloid -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter |
| Summary |
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), |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures in ethnology -- Bangladesh
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B films -- Bangladesh
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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B films
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Manners and customs
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Motion pictures in ethnology
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| SUBJECT |
Bangladesh -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Bangladesh
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231535151 |
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0231535155 |
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