Cut-Pieces as Stag Film: Bangladeshi Pornography in Action Cinema.
This article discusses the 'cut-piece', short strips of celluloid containing sexually explicit imagery that are spliced in and out of Bangladeshi feature films, even during screening. Such cut-pieces came into existence in Bangladesh in the mid-1990s and are made in Bangladesh with Bangladeshi actor...
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2010
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