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A delightful collection of stories from South Asia, some extending
back to early cultures of the Indus river. Include Life’s Secret;
The Story of Prince Sobur; The Ghost-Brahman; The Origin of Rubies;
The Match-Making Jackal; The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Being Bagged;
The Field of Bones; The Boy Who Had a Moon on His Forehead and a
Star on His Chin; Why the Fish Laughed; The Demon With the Matted
Hair; The Ivory City and Its Fairy Princess; Sun, Moon and Wind Go
Out to Dinner. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the
supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451
offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty
vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost
civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of
tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.
This book studies the hitherto overlooked genre of horror cinema in
India. It uncovers some unique and diverse themes that these films
deal with, including the fear of the unknown, the supernatural,
occult practices, communication with spirits of the deceased,
ghosts, reincarnation, figures of vampires, zombies, witches and
transmutations of human beings into non-human forms such as
werewolves. It focusses on the construction of feminine and
masculine subjectivities in select horror films across seven major
languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bangla, Marathi and
Malayalam. The author shows that the alienation of the body and
bodily functions through the medium of the horror film serves to
deconstruct stereotypes of caste, class, gender and
anthropocentrism. Some riveting insights emerge thus, such as the
masculinist undertow of the possession narrative and how complex
structures of resistance accompany the anxieties of culture via the
dread of laughter. This original account of Indian cinematic
history is accessible yet strongly analytical and includes an
exhaustive filmography. The book will interest scholars and
researchers in film studies, media and cultural studies, art,
popular culture and performance, literature, gender, sociology,
South Asian studies, practitioners, filmmakers as well as
cinephiles.
This book studies the hitherto overlooked genre of horror cinema in
India. It uncovers some unique and diverse themes that these films
deal with, including the fear of the unknown, the supernatural,
occult practices, communication with spirits of the deceased,
ghosts, reincarnation, figures of vampires, zombies, witches and
transmutations of human beings into non-human forms such as
werewolves. It focusses on the construction of feminine and
masculine subjectivities in select horror films across seven major
languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bangla, Marathi and
Malayalam. The author shows that the alienation of the body and
bodily functions through the medium of the horror film serves to
deconstruct stereotypes of caste, class, gender and
anthropocentrism. Some riveting insights emerge thus, such as the
masculinist undertow of the possession narrative and how complex
structures of resistance accompany the anxieties of culture via the
dread of laughter. This original account of Indian cinematic
history is accessible yet strongly analytical and includes an
exhaustive filmography. The book will interest scholars and
researchers in film studies, media and cultural studies, art,
popular culture and performance, literature, gender, sociology,
South Asian studies, practitioners, filmmakers as well as
cinephiles.
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