Meraj Ahmed Mubarki

Gebundenes Buch

The Horror in Hindi Cinema

Between the Mythic and the Monstrous

Beschreibung

The book offers a lively, detailed analysis of the ideological subtext of Hindi Horror cinema. It unearths its codes and conventions, its relationship to spectatorship, conjunctions and departures from Hollywood, and the unique features of Hindi horror. It posits the genre as a project of / for the 'nation' in the making.

Autor

Meraj Ahmed Mubarki is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication & Journalism at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. He has a Master's Degree and a PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Calcutta. He has taught at Asutosh College and Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata. He has contributed articles to prestigious international peer-reviewed journals like the History and Sociology of South Asia (Sage Publications), Contemporary South Asia (a Routledge Imprint), Visual Anthropology (Routledge Imprint), Indian Journal of Gender Studies (Sage Publications), South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (Routledge Imprint), Social Semiotics (Routledge Imprint), Quarterly Review of Film & Video (Routledge Imprint)and Feminist Media Studies (Routledge Imprint). In 2020, he was awarded a Fellowship by the National Film Archives of India, Pune to study film censorship in Colonial India. His articles have been included in the Reading Lists of the Sussex University, U.K.; Central University of Gujarat, India; the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, India; St Paul's University, Canada; University of California, Riverside, USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 385g
• ISBN-13: 9781032784748
• ISBN-10: 1032784741
• Artikelnr.: 71709520