Seeing Things

Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

Kartik Nair (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39228-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2024
Reihe/Serie	South Asia Across the Disciplines
Zusatzinfo	26 b-w figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10	0-520-39228-0 / 0520392280
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39228-1 / 9780520392281
Zustand	Neuware