Bollywood Horrors

Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India

Ellen Goldberg, Dr Aditi Sen, Professor Brian Collins (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-19175-4 (ISBN)

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Bollywood Horrors is a wide-ranging collection that examines the religious aspects of horror imagery, representations of real-life horror in the movies, and the ways in which Hindi films have projected cinematic fears onto the screen.

Part one, “Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia” looks at horror movie posters and song booklets and the surprising role of religion in the importation of Gothic tropes into Indian films, told through the little-known story of Sir Devendra Prasad Varma. Part two, “Cinematic Horror, Iconography and Aesthetics” examines the stereotype of the tantric magician found in Indian literature beginning in the medieval period, cinematic representations of the myth of the fearsome goddess Durga's slaying of the Buffalo Demon, and the influence of epic mythology and Hollywood thrillers on the 2002 film Raaz. The final part, “Cultural Horror,” analyzes elements of horror in Indian cinema’s depiction of human trafficking, shifting gender roles, the rape-revenge cycle, and communal violence. This book also features images (colour in the hardback, black and white in the paperback).

Ellen Goldberg is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the School of Religion at Queen’s University, Canada. She is the author of The Lord Who Is Half Woman: Ardhanarisvara in Indian and Feminist Perspective (2002), and co-editor of Gurus of Modern Yoga (2014). Aditi Sen is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the School of Religion, Queen’s University, Canada. Brian Collins is the Drs. Ram and Sushila Gawande Chair in Indian Religion and Philosophy and Associate Professor of World Religions at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice (2014).

Preface, Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA)
Introduction, Ellen Goldberg (Queen’s University, Canada), Aditi Sen (Queen’s University, Canada), and Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA)
Part I: Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia
1. Monsters, Masala, and Materiality: Close Encounters with Hindi Horror Movie Ephemera, Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA)
2. Vampire Man Varma: The Untold Story of the “Hindu Mystic” Who Decolonized Dracula, Brian Collins (Ohio University, USA)

Part II: Religion
3. Divine Horror and the Avenging Goddess in Bollywood, Kathleen Erndl (Florida State University, USA)
4. Horrifying and Sinister Tantriks, Hugh B. Urban (Ohio State University, USA)
5. Do you want to know the Raaz?: Tropes of Madness and Immorality in Bollywood Horror, Aditi Sen (Queen’s University, Canada)

Part III: Cinematic Fears
6. Cutural Horror In Dev : Man is the Cruelest Animal, Ellen Goldberg (Queens University, Canada)
7. Bandit Queen, Rape-Revenge, and Cultural Horror, Morgan Oddie (Queen’s University, Canada)
8. Mardaani and the Trafficking of Women in India, Beth Watkins (Allegheny College, USA)

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	40 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
ISBN-10	1-350-19175-2 / 1350191752
ISBN-13	978-1-350-19175-4 / 9781350191754
Zustand	Neuware