5. (Dis)Appearances: Digital Remediations of Soft-Porn in the Contemporary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Soft-Porn 101 1
5. 1. Madakarani: The Screen Pleasures of the Sex Siren in Malayalam Cinema 31
6. 2. Waiting for Kodambakkam: Economies of Waiting and Labor in Tinsel Town 60
7. 3. Embodied Vulnerabilities: Precarity and Body Work 87
8. 4. The Alternative Transnational: Migration, Media, and Soft-Porn 116
9. 5. (Dis)Appearances: Digital Remediations of Soft-Porn in the Contemporary 139
10. Conclusion: In Praise of Bad Women 166
11. Notes 173
12. Bibliography 199
13. Index 209