Seeing Things - Kartik Nair

Seeing Things

Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39227-4 (ISBN)
88,50 inkl. MwSt
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
Reihe/Serie South Asia Across the Disciplines
Zusatzinfo 26 b-w figures
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
ISBN-10 0-520-39227-2 / 0520392272
ISBN-13 978-0-520-39227-4 / 9780520392274
Zustand Neuware
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