{"product_id":"haunting-bollywood-gender-genre-and-the-supernatural-in-hindi-commercial-cinema-9789386392794","title":"Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Meheli Sen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHindi 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. \u003cem\u003eHaunting Bollywood \u003c\/em\u003eaddresses this gap.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSen 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. \u003cem\u003eHaunting Bollywood\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHaunting Bollywood\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to scholars and students of literary criticism, postcolonial studies, queer theory, history, and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616491135127,"sku":"9789386392794","price":1283.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789386392794.webp?v=1769294936","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/haunting-bollywood-gender-genre-and-the-supernatural-in-hindi-commercial-cinema-9789386392794","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}