Seeing Things : Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nair, Kartik.

Series:

South Asia Across the Disciplines Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists' materials--India--Mumbai.

Artists' materials.

Cinematography--Special effects--20th century.

Cinematography.

Horror films--Production and direction--India--Mumbai.

Horror films.

Horror films--India--Mumbai--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (451 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyrights

Dedication

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

Series List.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Nair, Kartik Seeing Things

ISBN:

9780520392298

OCLC:

1414468315