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Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India

by PaunksnisSarunas
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780199493180
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: History
  • Publisher: Oxford UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 194
  • Original Price: INR 895.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 500 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Film / General

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless competition and a desire to succeed against all odds proliferate into cinema? Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyses a wide array of films made in the early 21st century to offer a philosophical and psychoanalytical critique of the transforming cinematic imaginary—from the pre-1990s feudal family ideal to the contemporary construction of the new middle class’s subjectivities in the postcolonial context. Keeping in mind the effects of globalization, market liberalization, and the emergence of new forms of media and its consumption, the book proposes a theoretical engagement with cinematic transformations. Paunksnis presents an interdisciplinary study of a genre of cinema in which crime thrillers and horror films are aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions of our contemporary times.

Sarunas Paunksnis, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania

Sarunas Paunksnis teaches Philosophy at Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania. His main research areas include but are not limited to Indian cinema, media philosophy, postcolonial theory, globalization and cultural theory. He has recently edited a book titled, Dislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance (Brill, 2016).

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