Bollywood Horrors

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