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Seeing Things Kartik Nair

Seeing Things By Kartik Nair

Seeing Things by Kartik Nair


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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror by 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 Thingsis 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 Thingsreveals thespectral materialities informing the genre's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence.

About Kartik Nair

Kartik Nairis Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NGR9780520392281
9780520392281
0520392280
Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror by Kartik Nair
New
Paperback
University of California Press
2024-02-13
304
N/A
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