Kartik Nair

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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay HorrorPaperback, 19 December 2023

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror
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Part of Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Print Length
274 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
19 Dec 2023
ISBN-10
0520392280
ISBN-13
9780520392281

Description

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 prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality--one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions.

Product Details

Author:
Kartik Nair
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
19 December 2023
Genre:
Indian
ISBN-10:
0520392280
ISBN-13:
9780520392281
Language:
English
Pages:
274

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