Cut-pieces : celluloid obscenity and popular cinema in Bangladesh /

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Author / Creator:Hoek, Lotte, author.
Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Description:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:South Asia Across the Disciplines
South Asia across the disciplines.
Subject:Motion pictures in ethnology -- Bangladesh.
B films -- Bangladesh.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
B films.
Manners and customs.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Bangladesh -- Social life and customs.
Bangladesh.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11209716
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ISBN:9780231535151
0231535155
9780231162883
023116288X
9780231162890
0231162898
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
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),
Other form:Print version: Hoek, Lotte. Cut-pieces 9780231162883
Standard no.:10.7312/hoek16288