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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aMeheli Sen _9248194
245			_aHaunting Bollywood _b: Gender Genre and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
260			_aHyderabad _bOrient Blackswan Private Limited _c2017
300			_aix,251p _bHB _c23x16cm
365			_a3495 _b₹971.00 _c₹ _d₹1245.00 _e22% _f09-08-2022
520			_aHindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days. However, only a small segment of these films has been adequately explored in scholarly work. Haunting Bollywood addresses this gap. From Gothic ghost films of the 1950s to snake films of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s globally influenced zombie and vampire films, Meheli Sen explores what the supernatural is and the questions it raises about film form, history, modernity, and gender in South Asian public cultures. Contrary to the widely held belief that these are uniquely “local” forms, she shows that the supernatural is dispersed among multiple genres and is constantly in conversation with global cinematic conventions; simultaneously, the supernatural is an especially flexible impulse that pushes Hindi films into new formal and stylistic territories. Sen also argues that gender is a particularly accommodating arena in which the supernatural plays out its most basic compulsions; thus, the interface between gender and genre provides a productive lens into Hindi cinema’s negotiation of the modern and the global. Haunting Bollywood reveals that the supernatural’s unruly energies continually resist being contained, even as they engage with and sometimes subvert Hindi cinema’s most enduring pleasures, from songs and stars, to myth and melodrama. Haunting Bollywood will be of interest to scholars and students of literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies. Introduction Chapter One. Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film Chapter Two. The Ramsay Rampage: Horror as Emergency Cinema Chapter Three. Ravishing Reptiles: Magic, Masala, and the Hindi “Snake Film” Chapter Four. Present Imperfect: Bollywood and the Ghosts of Neoliberalism Chapter Five. The Planetary Paranormal: Millennial Mythos and the Disassembly of the “Hindi Film”
650			_aHorror Films _955434
650			_aMotion Pictures _955435
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