Cut-pieces : celluloid obscenity and popular cinema in Bangladesh / Lotte Hoek.
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TextPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013Description: 304 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780231162883 (hbk.) :; 9780231162890 (pbk.) :; 9780231535151 (ebook) :Subject(s): Motion pictures in ethnology -- Bangladesh | B films -- Bangladesh | Society | Society | Bangladesh -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 306.4'095492 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 a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography spliced into the reels of action films in Bangladesh.
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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.
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