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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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), |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Motion pictures in ethnology -- Bangladesh.
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Motion pictures in ethnology. |
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Bangladesh. |
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B films -- Bangladesh.
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B films. |
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Bangladesh -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hoek, Lotte. Cut-pieces 9780231162883 (DLC) 2013011066 (OCoLC)824353160 |
ISBN |
9780231535151 (electronic book) |
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0231535155 (electronic book) |
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9780231162883 |
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023116288X |
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9780231162890 |
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0231162898 |
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