Seeing Things
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censorship
cinema studies
cinematic horror
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indian film history
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studio industry
twentieth century Hindi-language horror films
undead
witches
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- ISBN 9780520392281
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Feb 2024
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Kartik Nair is Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University.
