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- Condition
- Book Title
- Cut-Pieces
- Publication Name
- Cut-Pieces
- Title
- Cut-Pieces
- Subtitle
- Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231162898
- EAN
- 9780231162890
- ISBN
- 9780231162890
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Pornography, Customs & Traditions, Film / History & Criticism
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 19/11/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Series
- South Asia Across the Disciplines
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 13.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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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, pseud .), a popular, Bangladeshi B-quality action movie and fascinating embodiment of the cut-piece phenomenon. She begins with the early scriptwriting phase and concludes with multiple screenings in remote Bangladeshi cinema halls, following the cut-pieces as they appear and disappear from the film, destabilizing its form, generating controversy, and titillating audiences. Hoek's work shines an unusual light on Bangladesh's state-owned film industry and popular practices of the obscene. She also reframes conceptual approaches to South Asian cinema and film culture, drawing on media anthropology to decode the cultural contradictions of Bangladesh since the 1990s.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231162898
ISBN-13
9780231162890
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150515494
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Pornography, Customs & Traditions, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gn635.B33h64 2013
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
The theoretical and literary sophistication of this study of the oscillating visibility of obscenity in Bangladesh is remarkable. Taking one film as her "field site" and using effervescent prose, Hoek presents a superb study of the production-consumption continuum of "unstable celluloid" and richly conjures Dhaka's film studios, location shooting and the country's small town movie theatres. The artisanal inventiveness of Bangladeshi purveyors of "hot spice" provides a welcome counterweight to "gentrified" Bollywood. Hoek's exceptional ethnography of the abject, the dilapidated, the mofussil , demonstrates magnificently how cinema, like almost everything else, fails to live up to its own ideals., The theoretical and literary sophistication of this study of the oscillating visibility of obscenity in Bangladesh is remarkable. Taking one film as her 'field site' and using effervescent prose, Hoek presents a superb study of the production-consumption continuum of 'unstable celluloid' and richly conjures Dhaka's film studios, location shooting, and the country's small town movie theaters. The artisanal inventiveness of Bangladeshi purveyors of 'hot spice' provides a welcome counterweight to 'gentrified' Bollywood. Hoek's exceptional ethnography of the abject, the dilapidated, the mofussil, demonstrates magnificently how cinema, like almost everything else, fails to live up to its own ideals., Hoek's journeys to towns with considerable distance from Dhaka are a thrill to read; viewings of Mintu the Murderer are vivid in no small terms, and the local color of hanging out at tea stalls and backrooms were page-turners. This is an inspired book, showing the life of a film from its conception to exhibition, or in this case to its ban.
Publication Name
Cut-Pieces : Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Table of Content
Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms Acknowledgments Introduction: Before Mintu the Murderer 1. Writing Gaps : The Script of Mintu the Murderer 2. A Handheld Camera Twisted Rapidly: The Technology of Mintu the Murderer 3. Actress /Character: The Heroines of Mintu the Murderer 4. Cutting and Splicing: The Editor and Censor of Mintu the Murderer 5. Noise: The Public Sphere of Mintu the Murderer 6. Unstable Celluloid: The Exhibiti on of Mintu the Murderer Conclusion: After Mintu the Murderer Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2013-011066
Dewey Decimal
306.4095492
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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