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Bollywood Horrors : Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India, EPUB eBook

Bollywood Horrors : Religion, Violence and Cinematic Fears in India EPUB

Edited by Goldberg Ellen Goldberg, Sen Aditi Sen, Collins Brian Collins

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Bollywood Horrors is a wide-ranging collection that examines the religious aspects of horror imagery, representations of real-life horror in the movies, and the ways in which Hindi films have projected cinematic fears onto the screen.

Part one, Material Cultures and Prehistories of Horror in South Asia looks at horror movie posters and song booklets and the surprising role of religion in the importation of Gothic tropes into Indian films, told through the little-known story of Sir Devendra Prasad Varma. Part two, Cinematic Horror, Iconography and Aesthetics examines the stereotype of the tantric magician found in Indian literature beginning in the medieval period, cinematic representations of the myth of the fearsome goddess Durga's slaying of the Buffalo Demon, and the influence of epic mythology and Hollywood thrillers on the 2002 film Raaz. The final part, Cultural Horror, analyzes elements of horror in Indian cinema's depiction of human trafficking, shifting gender roles, the rape-revenge cycle, and communal violence. This book also features images (colour in the hardback, black and white in the paperback).

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