REALITY (RE-)VISITED: CHILDREN OF PROSTITUTES IN BORN INTO BROTHELS

Touhid A. Chowdhury

doi:10.46827/ejls.v2i2.231

REALITY (RE-)VISITED: CHILDREN OF PROSTITUTES IN BORN INTO BROTHELS

European Journal of Literary Studies ◽

10.46827/ejls.v2i2.231 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Touhid A. Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Technological Development ◽

Red Light ◽

Motion Pictures ◽

Documentary Films ◽

The People ◽

Real People ◽

Documentary Filmmaking ◽

Red Light District

The human quest for securing, recording, and preserving memories of reality lead to the invention of motion pictures, which then gave birth to documentary films. Documentary filmmaking has radically evolved in recent years. Capturing reality come into scrutiny as more and more technological development allows the documentary filmmakers to design and articulate reality more subjectively than ever before. Born Into Brothels is a film about real people from the red light districts of Calcutta. Poverty and disease are two common phenomena of the people who live in Sonagachi, Calcutta’s red-light district. Another name of the documentary, Calcutta’s Red Light Kids, skillfully turns audience’s focus on the children of the brothels from Calcutta, which in a way, establishes that this film is about kids and not prostitution. The fact that Born Into Brothels is about children of prostitutes and not about prostitution makes it an intriguing example in analyzing the presented “reality” as well as the filmmakers’ perspectives. This article intends to investigate specific filmic and editorial techniques that documentary filmmakers use in articulating the inevitable reality of society. This article argues that Born Into Brothels tries to invoke humanitarian awareness among the audience and in a broader sense into society. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0780/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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This Is Not Reality (Ceci n'est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of the People Creativity, the Chinese Subaltern, and Documentary Storytelling

Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images ◽

10.3998/gs.1701 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Paola Voci

Keyword(s):

Digital Media ◽

Virtual Space ◽

The Political ◽

Documentary Films ◽

The Real ◽

The People ◽

Personal Approach ◽

Documentary Filmmaking ◽

Creative Subject

How has documentary(re)presented subaltern creativity? Focusing on post-socialist, globalizing China, I examine documentary narratives by and about the creative subaltern originating from Chinese “cool cities” and expanding in the virtual space of global digital media. In these narratives, the creative subaltern has appeared obliquely, tangential to other narratives, subordinate to internationally recognized artists, or with a more central role, as the author or the protagonist of documentary films. I analyze these narratives’ entanglement with elitist definitions of creativity, the representation of subaltern reality, the expression of subjectivity, and the tension between the political and the personal. I argue that documentary has played an important albeit ambiguous role—provocative and empowering, but also, at times, formulaic and constricting—in shaping the discourse on the subaltern as a creative subject, by amplifying creativity’s indexicality to the real and obfuscating its imaginative quality and its ambition of breaking free from the real. Reflecting on the contemporary relevance of the Free Cinema movement’s advocacy for a subjective, personal approach to capturing the “imagination of the people” and exploration of lyric realism in documentary filmmaking, I propose that documentary can and should dare to “make poetry.” Forms of documentary expressivity such as poetic, not plot-driven narratives can reconcile imagination with reality and offer alternative, more appropriate means of capturing the complexity, heterogeneity, and contradictoriness of the subaltern condition, and for subaltern creativity to be expressed, appreciated, and affirmed.

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Daily Encounters That Make History: History from Below and Archival Collaboration

International Journal of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s0020743821000076 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 139-143

Author(s):

Hanan Hammad

Keyword(s):

Nile Delta ◽

Red Light ◽

Class Relations ◽

Factory Worker ◽

History Of Sexuality ◽

History Of ◽

Modern Egypt ◽

Red Light District

What does a casual confrontation in a rundown shack between a landlady and her factory-worker tenant tell us about the history of gender and class relations in modern Egypt? Could a lost watch in a red-light district in the middle of the Nile Delta complicate our understanding of the history of sexuality and urbanization? Can an unexpectedly intimate embrace on a sleeping mat illuminate a link in the history of class, gender, and urbanization in modern Egypt?

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Performance, Status and Hybridity in a Pakistani Red-Light District: The Cultural Production of the Courtesan

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/1363460707080975 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 409-423 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Louise Brown

Keyword(s):

Cultural Production ◽

Performance Status ◽

Red Light ◽

Red Light District

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Challenges of Pancasila Ideology in the Era of Industrial Revolution 4.0: Case Study of Generation Z and Millennials

10.20944/preprints202106.0260.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sovi Dwi Febrian Silva ◽

Moses Glorino

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Technological Development ◽

Human Life ◽

Capital Management ◽

Human Capital Management ◽

Generation Z ◽

The People ◽

Technological Developments ◽

The Government

Introduction: The imbalance between technological development and ideological strengthening has resulted in the fading of the Pancasila ideological values of millennials. Technology that accompanies everyday life seems to be the main character in human life. Yet if humans themselves do not use technology wisely, technology can be a threat to both individuals and the life of the nation and state. If technology is increasingly out of control, threats to the Pancasila ideology are very likely to occur, such as in the G 30S PKI incident. Therefore, it is necessary to take action both from the government and the community as individuals to safeguard the development of technology to be used wisely. That way, we can prevent the threat to the Pancasila ideology together. Writing this article aims to analyze how the role and influence of the Pancasila ideology on the millennial generation in the 4.0 industrial revolution and to find solutions so that the values of Pancasila remain attached to the next generation of the Indonesian nation. Method: Writing This article uses a qualitative method by using literature reviews from the results of related research journals that have been published online through websites and other online media. Results: Thirteen journals and one book have met the criteria for the inclusion of a predetermined review. Research is based on the stigma of society regarding technological developments in the Industrial revolution 4.0. Therefore, the government is expected to be more severe in implementing human capital management. Conclusion: By procuring human capital management, it will be possible that Human Resources (HR) in Indonesia will be able to carry out the ideals of a golden Indonesian generation with Pancasila values inherent in the hearts of the people and the nation's future generations.

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Of Raids and Returns: Sex work movement, police oppression, and the politics of the ordinary in Sonagachi, India

Anti-Trafficking Review ◽

10.14197/atr.201219128 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 127-139

Author(s):

Simanti Dasgupta

Keyword(s):

Sex Work ◽

Current Literature ◽

Sex Workers ◽

Red Light ◽

State Violence ◽

Labour Movement ◽

Sex Worker ◽

Labour Rights ◽

Red Light District

Drawing on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), a grassroots sex worker organisation in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, India, this paper explores the politics of the detritus generated by raids as a form of state violence. While the current literature mainly focuses on its institutional ramifications, this article explores the significance of the raid in its immediate relation to the brothel as a home and a space to collectivise for labour rights. Drawing on atyachar (oppression), the Bengali word sex workers use to depict the violence of raids, I argue that they experience the raid not as a spectacle, but as an ordinary form of violence in contrast to their extraordinary experience of return to rebuild their lives. Return signals both a reclamation of the detritus as well as subversion of the state’s attempt to undermine DMSC’s labour movement.

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