{"product_id":"rated-a-9780520397453","title":"Rated A","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Darshana Sreedhar Mini\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In \u003ci\u003eRated A\u003c\/i\u003e, Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped Malayalam soft-porn cinema--such as vernacular pulp fiction, illustrated erotic tales, and American exploitation cinema--and maps the genre's circulation among blue-collar workers of the Indian diaspora in the Middle East, where pirated versions circulate alongside low-budget Bangladeshi films and Pakistani mujra dance films as South Asian pornography. Through a mix of archival and ethnographic research, Mini also explores the soft-porn industry's utilization of gendered labor and trust-based arrangements, as well as how actresses and production personnel who are marked by their involvement with a taboo form negotiate their social lives. By locating the tense negotiations between sexuality, import policy, and censorship in contemporary India, this study offers a model for understanding film genres outside of screen space, emphasizing that they constitute not just industrial formations but entire fields of social relations and gendered imaginaries.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45608313585815,"sku":"9780520397453","price":2533.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780520397453.webp?v=1769294186","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rated-a-9780520397453","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}