Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror (South Asia Across the Disciplines) 1st Edition

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror (South Asia Across the Disciplines) – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780520392281,0520392280,9780520392298, 0520392299

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• ISBN 10: 0520392299
  ISBN 13: 9780520392298
• Author: Kartik Nair

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.

Table of contents:

1. Series Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgments
7. Introduction: Accidental Exposures
8. 1. Paper Cuts: Inside the Bureaucratic Encounter with “Darwaza”
9. 2. Celluloid Splatter: The Graphic Violence of “Jaani Dushman”
10. 3. Unsettling Design: Built Atmosphere in “Purana Mandir”
11. 4. Making Monsters: “Veerana” and the Craft of Excess
12. 5. Hidden Circuits: “Kabrastan” from Film to Videotape
13. Epilogue: An Archive of Failures
14. Notes
15. Bibliography
16. Index

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