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Filming horror : Hindi cinema, ghosts and ideologies / Meraj Ahmed Mubarki.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789351508731
  • 9351508730
  • 9351508714
  • 9789351508717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Filming horror.DDC classification:
  • 791.430954 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.I8 M65 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; INDIAN CINEMA AND IDEOLOGY; Hindi Cinema and Ideology; Cinema in the Colonial Context; GENRE, CODES AND THE HORROR CINEMA; Genre and Its Functionality; Horror Genre and Spectatorship; Freud and the Uncanny; Robin Wood's Return of the Repressed; Julia Kristeva and the Abject; Generic Codes of the Hindi Horror; Conjunctions and Departures with Hollywood; Generic Features of the Hindi Horror; Horror Cinema as Project of/for the 'Nation'; Nature of the Hindi Horror Genre; SECULAR CONSCIOUS NARRATIVE; Secularism in the Indian Context; Mahal: The Inaugural Moment of the Secular Consciousness; Madhumati; Kohraa; Bhool Bhulaiyaa; RETURN OF TRADITIONAL-CULTURAL NARRATIVE; Jadu Tona; Gehrayee; Phoonk; The Horror in Science Fiction: Between Morals and Mad Scientists; Historicity of the Monstrous Narrative; India and the Discourse of Science; Monstrosities from Science or Monstrous Science?; The Horror of Transmutation; The Triumph of the Traditional/Mythic Order; ; The Monstrous 'Other' Feminine; Mangalsutra and the Monstrous Other Feminine; Veerana; Modernization of Patriarchy and Post-liberalization Female Monstrosity; Raaz; Eight: The Power of Shani; Darling; THE INFLECTION OF THE HINDUTVA 'IDEO'LOGIC CINEMA; 1920; Haunted; Conclusion; References; Index.
Summary: First book to study the horror genre of Hindi cinema in all its forms and expressions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface; Acknowledgements; INDIAN CINEMA AND IDEOLOGY; Hindi Cinema and Ideology; Cinema in the Colonial Context; GENRE, CODES AND THE HORROR CINEMA; Genre and Its Functionality; Horror Genre and Spectatorship; Freud and the Uncanny; Robin Wood's Return of the Repressed; Julia Kristeva and the Abject; Generic Codes of the Hindi Horror; Conjunctions and Departures with Hollywood; Generic Features of the Hindi Horror; Horror Cinema as Project of/for the 'Nation'; Nature of the Hindi Horror Genre; SECULAR CONSCIOUS NARRATIVE; Secularism in the Indian Context; Mahal: The Inaugural Moment of the Secular Consciousness; Madhumati; Kohraa; Bhool Bhulaiyaa; RETURN OF TRADITIONAL-CULTURAL NARRATIVE; Jadu Tona; Gehrayee; Phoonk; The Horror in Science Fiction: Between Morals and Mad Scientists; Historicity of the Monstrous Narrative; India and the Discourse of Science; Monstrosities from Science or Monstrous Science?; The Horror of Transmutation; The Triumph of the Traditional/Mythic Order; ; The Monstrous 'Other' Feminine; Mangalsutra and the Monstrous Other Feminine; Veerana; Modernization of Patriarchy and Post-liberalization Female Monstrosity; Raaz; Eight: The Power of Shani; Darling; THE INFLECTION OF THE HINDUTVA 'IDEO'LOGIC CINEMA; 1920; Haunted; Conclusion; References; Index.

First book to study the horror genre of Hindi cinema in all its forms and expressions.

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