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Meheli Sen - Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema - 9781477311578 - V9781477311578
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Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema

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Description for Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 514.

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 cinema’s least explored genres.

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 delves into what the supernatural is and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9781477311578
SKU
V9781477311578
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

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.

Reviews for Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
Haunting Bollywood is an insightful volume that makes several important contributions to Indian cinema scholarship, including the consolidation of seemingly disparate bodies of films. . . . [It] is a welcome addition to scholarship on Indian cinema and an essential read for its students.
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

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