Cut-Pieces - Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh

Informationen zum Autor Lotte Hoek is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. She received her Ph.D. from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research! and her research focuses on visual culture and the anthropology of media. Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: Lotte Hoek, Lotte (Lecturer in Social Anthropology Hoek, Hoek Lotte
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2013
• EAN: 9780231162890
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16289-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Disciplines; South Asia Across the Discipli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Pakistan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / Asian / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Pornography, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethical issues and debates