Hoek, Lotte.,

Cut-pieces : celluloid obscenity and popular cinema in Bangladesh / Lotte Hoek. - 304 pages : illustrations (black and white)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh.

Specialized.

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Motion pictures in ethnology--Bangladesh.
B films--Bangladesh.
Society.
Society.


Bangladesh--Social life and customs.

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