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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kartik NairPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780520392281ISBN 10: 0520392280 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 13 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsContents 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 IndexReviews"""Peeling off the monstrous mask of the horror genre, Seeing Things reveals a broad historical scope that encompasses independent film production, circulation, and regulation at a critical turning point in India’s film history."" * Film Quarterly *" Author InformationKartik Nair is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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