| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 9, 2018) |
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Motion pictures -- India -- History
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Horror films -- India -- History and criticism
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- India
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Horror films
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Horrorfilm
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Hindi
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India
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Indien
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789351508731 |
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9351508730 |
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9351508714 |
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9789351508717 |
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