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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 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.

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

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 13 February 2024
      ISBN-13 9780520392281
      978-0520392281
      ISBN-10 0520392280
      Also in:
      Entertainment Films, cinema Science fiction, fantasy and horror

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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

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