Cut-Pieces : : Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh / / Lotte Hoek.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:South Asia Across the Disciplines
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›11.
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Table of 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