Cut-Pieces

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Cut-Pieces is written by Lotte Hoek and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 023116288X (ISBN 10) and 9780231162883 (ISBN 13).

This title explores the shadowy world of the short, pornographic cut-piece clips that appear in some films in Bangladesh and examines their place in South Asian film culture. It provides a portrait of the production, consumption and cinematic pleasures of stray celluloid and shines a light on Bangladesh's state-owned film industry and popular practices of the obscene. The book 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.