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Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror

Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror - Paperback

by Kartik Nair
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kartik NairSeries:South Asia Across the DisciplinesPublish date:2024-02-13Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520392281ISBN-10:520392280UPC:9780520392281Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, AsiaBook Topic:Genres, South, History & CriticismSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCC3CTEYTG
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520392281ISBN-10:520392280UPC:9780520392281Book Category:Performing Arts, HistoryBook Subcategory:Film, AsiaBook Topic:Genres, South, History & CriticismSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCC3CTEYTG
Kartik Nair is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.
Publisher: University of California Press

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