Seeing things: spectral materialities of Bombay horror
"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...
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University of California Press
[2024]
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| Schriftenreihe: | South Asia across the disciplines
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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."-- |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 283 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780520392281 0520392280 9780520392274 0520392272 |
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| spelling | Nair, Kartik 1985- Verfasser aut Seeing things spectral materialities of Bombay horror Kartik Nair Oakland, California University of California Press [2024] xiv, 283 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier South Asia across the disciplines Introduction : accidental exposures -- Paper cuts : inside the bureaucratic encounter with Darwaza -- Celluloid splatter : the graphic violence of Jaani Dushman -- Unsettling design : built atmosphere of Purana Mandir -- Making monsters : Veerana and the craft of excess -- Hidden circuits : Kabrastan from film to videotape -- Epilogue : an archive of failures "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."-- Horror films / India / Mumbai / 20th century Artists' materials / India / Mumbai Horror films / Production and direction / India / Mumbai Cinematography / Special effects / 20th century Artists' materials Cinematography / Special effects Horror films Horror films / Production and direction India / Mumbai 1900-1999 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Nair, Kartik, 1985- Seeing things Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] 978-0-520-39229-8 |
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