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Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

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By (author): Meheli Sen

Haunting Bollywood is a pioneering, interdisciplinary inquiry into the supernatural in Hindi cinema that draws from literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days, but only a small segment of these films have been adequately explored in scholarly work; this book addresses this gap by focusing on some of Hindi cinemas least explored genres.

From Gothic ghost films of the 1950s to snake films of the 1970s and 1980s to todays globally influenced zombie and vampire films, Meheli Sen delves into what the supernatural is and the varied modalities through which it raises questions of film form, history, modernity, and gender in South Asian public cultures. Arguing that the supernatural is dispersed among multiple genres and constantly in conversation with global cinematic forms, she demonstrates that it is an especially malleable impulse that routinely pushes Hindi film into new formal and stylistic territories. Sen also argues that gender is a particularly accommodating stage on which the supernatural rehearses its most basic compulsions; thus, the interface between gender and genre provides an exceptionally productive lens into Hindi cinemas negotiation of the modern and the global. Haunting Bollywood reveals that the supernaturals unruly energies continually resist containment, even as they partake of and sometimes subvert Hindi cinemas most enduring pleasures, from songs and stars to myth and melodrama.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 399g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Mar 2017
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781477311585

About Meheli Sen

Meheli Sen is an assistant professor in the Department of African Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) and the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Figurations in Indian Film.

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