Seeing Things

Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-39228-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 424 g

Reihe: South Asia Across the Disciplines

In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched makeup effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage found in these movies. Kartik Nair reads such "failures" as clues to the conditions in which the films were made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. By combining close analysis with extensive archival research and original interviews, Seeing Things reveals the spectral materialities informing the genre's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nair, Kartik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Accidental Exposures

1. Paper Cuts: Inside the Bureaucratic Encounter with Darwaza

2. Celluloid Splatter: The Graphic Violence of Jaani Dushman

3. Unsettling Design: Built Atmosphere in Purana Mandir

4. Making Monsters: Veerana and the Craft of Excess

5. Hidden Circuits: Kabrastan from Film to Videotape

Epilogue: An Archive of Failures

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kartik Nair is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.