Dirty Picture

For well over a decade, half-baked analysis and phony science have been used by some feminists to side-track the women's movement into puritanical campaigns against sexual material and imaginative sexual exploration.Many feminists would say that this widely publicised version of feminism is itself sexist, and that the increasingly vocal anti-pornography campaigns are founded on theoretical dead-ends that have allowed feminists to deviate drastically from the basic goals of women's liberation.Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures puts these anti-sex, anti-porn arguments under the microscope of a more thorough and considered feminist analysis. It examines the flaws in the research that purports to prove the harm of pornography and warns against the continuing use of censorship by politicians and the moral right, as well as exposing the dangers of anti-porn feminist arguments.Contributions from a wide range of women, including sex workers and academics, remind us that pornography does not have a special place in our oppression, and that censorship must still be seen as dangerous enemy of women. Bad Girls & Dirty Pictures is a much-needed antidote to falsehoods, shabby thinking, and patronising sexism that have fuelled anti-pornography campaigns and misled the women's movement.

In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers inspired by the directors of the 1970s began to flower outside the studio system. In the following decade, the independent movement bloomed. In this volume Biskind tells the story of these filmmakers and the independent distributors.

Dirty Picture is the story of two sisters whose liaisons create scandal in a small town. Leaving her husband's home in Bombay, Reena returns to Ajmer wearing the ring of a married CEO. She intends to rebuild her life even if it means stepping out of convention. Meanwhile, her teenage sister Bharti has stumbled into local politics. Although imbued with a reformatory zeal, she gets sucked into a veritable quagmire of sexual intrigue because of her naivety and inexperience. While Bharti's life begins to disintegrate, dragging all around her into a nightmare of exploitation, Reena struggles to keep her castle in the air from imminent collapse. Circumstances become inexorable as the moral brigade closes in on the hapless Bharti and Reena discovers that the CEO is more in love with his image on T.V. Anuradha Marwah writes feelingly about desire, abuse and small town society. Her searing third novel imaginatively explores the 'sex scandal' that shook Ajmer in the 1990s and raises deeply disturbing questions about love and consent. …she is erudite, has a way with words and compels attention. - Khushwant Singh

In this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood—most notably Sundance founder Robert Redford and Harvey Weinstein, who with his brother, Bob, made Miramax Films an indie powerhouse. As he did in his acclaimed Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind “takes on the movie industry of the 1990s and again gets the story” (The New York Times). Biskind charts in fascinating detail the meteoric rise of the controversial Harvey Weinstein, often described as the last mogul, who created an Oscar factory that became the envy of the studios, while leaving a trail of carnage in his wake. He follows Sundance as it grew from a regional film festival to the premier showcase of independent film, succeeding almost despite the mercurial Redford, whose visionary plans were nearly thwarted by his own quixotic personality. Likewise, the directors who emerged from the independent movement, such as Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and David O. Russell, are now among the best-known directors in Hollywood. Not to mention the actors who emerged with them, like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Ethan Hawke, and Uma Thurman. Candid, controversial, and “sensationally entertaining” (Los Angeles Times) Down and Dirty Pictures is a must-read for anyone interested in the film world.

The biographical film or biopic is a staple of film production in all major film industries and yet, within film studies, its generic, aesthetic, and cultural significance has remained underexplored. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture fills this gap, conceptualizing the biopic with a particular eye toward the "life" of the genre internationally. New theoretical approaches combine with specially commissioned chapters on contemporary biographical film production in India, Italy, South Korea, France, Russia, Great Britain, and the US, in order to present a selective but well-rounded portrait of the biopic’s place in film culture. From Marie Antoinette to The Social Network, the pieces in this volume critically examine the place of the biopic within ongoing debates about how cinema can and should represent history and "real lives." Contributors discuss the biopic’s grounding in the conventions of the historical film, and explore the genre’s defining traits as well as its potential for innovation. The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture expands the critical boundaries of this evolving, versatile genre.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the 1990s, India's mediascape saw the efflorescence of edgy soft-porn films in the Malayalam-speaking state of Kerala. In Rated A, Darshana Sreedhar Mini examines the local and transnational influences that shaped Malayalam soft-porn cinema--such as vernacular pulp fiction, illustrated erotic tales, and American exploitation cinema--and maps the genre's circulation among blue-collar workers of the Indian diaspora in the Middle East, where pirated versions circulate alongside low-budget Bangladeshi films and Pakistani mujra dance films as South Asian pornography. Through a mix of archival and ethnographic research, Mini also explores the soft-porn industry's utilization of gendered labor and trust-based arrangements, as well as how actresses and production personnel who are marked by their involvement with a taboo form negotiate their social lives. By locating the tense negotiations between sexuality, import policy, and censorship in contemporary India, this study offers a model for understanding film genres outside of screen space, emphasizing that they constitute not just industrial formations but entire fields of social relations and gendered imaginaries.

Databases can be found in almost all software applications. Infact it's hard to find a software that doesn’t use a database. SQL is the standard language to query a database. SQL stand for: Structured Query Language. SQL provides basic to advance commands to retrieve, update, delete, insert data into database. This book is designed for beginners with little or no prior database experience. Here is what you will learn: Table Of Content Chapter 1: Introduction to Database and MySQL 1. What is Data? 2. What is a database? 3. What is a Database Management System? 4. Types of DBMS 5. What is SQL? 6. What is NoSQL? Chapter 2: Install MySQL workbench 1. What is MySQL? 2. Why use MySQL? 3. Introducing MySQL Workbench 4. MySQL workbench- Modeling and Design tool 5. MySQL workbench - SQL development tool 6. Install MySQL workbench Guide Chapter 3: Introduction To Database Design 1. Why Database Design is Important? 2. Database development life cycle 3. Requirements analysis 4. Database designing 5. Implementation 6. Types of Database Techniques Chapter 4: Database Normalization 1. What is Normalization? 2. 1NF Rules 3. What is Composite Key 4. 2NF Rules 5. 3NF Rules 6. Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) Chapter 5: ER Modeling 1. What is ER Modeling? 2. Enhanced Entity Relationship (EER) Model 3. Why use ER Model? 4. Entities in the "MyFlix" library 5. Defining the relationships among entities Chapter 6: How To Create A Database 1. Create Database 2. Creating Tables MySQL 3. Data types 4. MySQL workbench ER diagram forward Engineering Chapter 7: How to use SELECT in MySQL Chapter 8: Where clause in MySQL Chapter 9: How to use INSERT Into in MySQL Chapter 10: How to Delete & Update data in MySQL Chapter 11: ORDER BY, DESC and ASC Chapter 12: Group By Chapter 13: Wildcards Chapter 14: Regular Expressions Chapter 15: MySQL PHP Chapter 16: Aggregate Function in MySQL Chapter 17: Null value & Keyword in MySQL Chapter 18: Auto Increment Chapter 19: Alter, Drop & Rename Chapter 20: Limit keyword Chapter 21: Sub-Queries Chapter 22: Joins Chapter 23: Unions Chapter 24: Views Chapter 25: Index in MySQL