{"id":51259,"date":"2022-12-19T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2022\/dec\/19\/pakistan-art-pop-culture-joyland-ms-marvel"},"modified":"2022-12-19T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:01:12","slug":"superheroes-jazz-queer-art-how-pakistans-transgressive-pop-culture-went-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51259","title":{"rendered":"Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan\u2019s transgressive pop culture went global"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freed from the shadow of 9\/11, the country\u2019s artists are building on a rich heritage \u2013 to international acclaim<\/p>\n

In August, Pakistan\u2019s three censor boards cleared Saim Sadiq\u2019s award-winning film Joyland for release. Shot in Lahore, the film is about a young married man from a conservative family who finds work at a dance theatre and falls in love with a trans woman struggling to land her moment on stage. It was the first Pakistani film to screen at Cannes and it won the Un Certain Regard prize, receiving a standing ovation nearly10 minutes long. <\/p>\n

Even though the film was then subject to various bans in Pakistan<\/a>, after being accused of pushing an LGTBQ+ agenda and misrepresenting Pakistani culture, it finally appeared in Pakistani cinemas in November, with Malala Yousafzai signing on as executive producer.<\/p>\n

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Freed from the shadow of 9\/11, the country\u2019s artists are building on a rich heritage \u2013 to international acclaimIn August, Pakistan\u2019s three censor boards cleared Saim Sadiq\u2019s award-winning film Joyland for release. Shot in Lahore, the film is about a yo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1837,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,71,69,425,60,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-film","category-music","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51274,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51259\/revisions\/51274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}