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03378aam a2200481 i 4500 001 A17F9716FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 230425s2024 caua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023019898 020 $a 0520392280 020 $a 9780520392281 020 $a 0520392272 020 $a 9780520392274 035 $a (OCoLC)1375186103 040 $a CU-S/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a PN1995.9.H6 $b N37 2024 082 00 $a 791.43/61640954792 $2 23/eng/20230802 100 1 $a Nair, Kartik, $d 1985- $e author. 245 10 $a Seeing things : $b spectral materialities of Bombay horror / $c Kartik Nair. 264 1 $a Oakland, California : $b University of California Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xiv, 283 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a South Asia across the disciplines 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : Bombay horror -- Paper cuts : inside the bureaucratic encounter with Darwaza -- Graphic violence : the splattered celluloid of Jaani Dushman -- Unsettling design : the built atmosphere of Purana Mandir -- Bodies of excess : special effects at the limit of craft in Veerana -- Beyond the Kabrastan : film, videotape, and afterlife of Bombay horror. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Horror films $z Mumbai $z Mumbai $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Artists' materials $z Mumbai. $z Mumbai. 650 0 $a Horror films $x Production and direction $z Mumbai. $z Mumbai. 650 0 $a Cinematography $x Special effects $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Artists' materials. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00817674 650 7 $a Cinematography $x Special effects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00861506 650 7 $a Horror films. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960370 650 7 $a Horror films $x Production and direction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960373 651 7 $a India $z Mumbai. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01802300 776 08 $i Online version: $a Nair, Kartik, 1985- $t Seeing things $d Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] $z 9780520392298 $w (DLC) 2023019899 830 0 $a South Asia across the disciplines 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417024811.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A17F9716FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search