Seeing Things : Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror Hardback
by Kartik Nair
Part of the South Asia Across the Disciplines series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 26 b-w figures
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:13/02/2024
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- ISBN:9780520392274
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, 26 b-w figures
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:13/02/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520392274
