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Seeing Things
"In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched prosthetic effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage in these movies. Such moments may very well be "failures" of various kinds, but in this book Kartik Nair reads them as clues to the conditions in which the films were once made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. Combining extensive archival research and original interviews with close readings of landmark films including Purana Mandir, Veerana, and Jaani Dushman, this book tracks the material coordinates of horror cinema's spectral images. In the process, Seeing Things discovers a spectral materiality-one that informs Bombay horror's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence and gives visceral force to our experience of the genre's globally familiar conventions"--
Nakul
Nakul,is a story of passion,of emotions.Nakul, an eleven year old school going boy is passionate about football and greatly attached to his pets.His sister and grandmother play an important role in his life, while Karthik and Bhupinder, his friends in school,are many times Nakul's guiding light. His shy nature stops him from asking doubts from his teachers. Thus he is many times laughed at by other class mates for his wrong answers. Remembering names and dates in History is a mystery for him, and sometimes latitude - longitude make him puzzled. The story sees love between teens,crush of young ones,and a turning point is Nakul's visit to his paternal Village. Meeting his cousin Bhombol brings a turning point in his life. The city boy gains confidence,clarity and hope thus making his stay memorable in the village. Does Nakul return to the city? What is his outlook? What's the new change in Nakul? The book shall answer all.
4EVER
"An excellent treasure of One Hundred English Poems titled ‘4 Ever’. Soulitaire brings this ultimate Anthology for poetry lovers. Four proficient poets have penned their thoughts with perfect rhymes. Every poem is doused in emotions, thoughts, moments, and life… ‘4 Ever’ is a contemporary replica of life, love, charms, light and shade etc. The interpretation through language and allusion creates the spell. Poetry is the best way to convey the ideas of the writers. The book is a well-turned result of poetry with the freedom of word selection and story creation. Each poet has contributed with twenty five poetic flowers from their respective collections and niche to form this scented garland. With the divine representation of four skilled poets, ‘4 Ever’ is solemnized with the gist of perception. "
Backstreet Boy
The book is a differentiated biography of former Indian skipper M S Dhoni that celebrates the total journey of the individual as a cricketer through various assorted articles that have been meticulously curated by the author. The author further draws marketing parallels in this book as he compares to Dhoni with a brand that has an inspiring and engaging story to tell and that needs to be shared. Although there are a number of biographies on Dhoni in the market, this book is very different in its approach and treatment and it surely reflects the unputdownable fan spirit of the author for the man who is the cynosure of this book. A truly interesting read for anyone who loves the game of cricket and has been mesmerized by Dhoni's aura time and again on and off the field.
Losing the Plot
An examination of the relationship between literature and classical Hollywood cinema reveals a profound longing for plot in modernist fiction. The modernist novel sought to escape what Virginia Woolf called the “tyranny” of plot. Yet even as twentieth-century writers pushed against the constraints of plot-driven Victorian novels, plot kept its hold on them through the influence of another medium: the cinema. Focusing on the novels of Nella Larsen, Djuna Barnes, and William Faulkner—writers known for their affinities and connections to classical Hollywood—Pardis Dabashi links the moviegoing practices of these writers to the tensions between the formal properties of their novels and the characters in them. Even when they did not feature outright happy endings, classical Hollywood films often provided satisfying formal resolutions and promoted normative social and political values. Watching these films, modernist authors were reminded of what they were leaving behind—both formally and in the name of aesthetic experimentalism—by losing the plot.
The Twin Towers in Film
For thirty years, the twin towers of the World Trade Center soared above the New York City skyline, eventually becoming one of the most conspicuous symbolic structures in the world. They appeared in hundreds of films, from Godspell and Death Wish to Trading Places, Ghostbusters and The Usual Suspects. The politicians, architects and engineers who developed the towers sought to imbue them with a powerful visual presence. The resulting buildings provided filmmakers with imposing set pieces capable of conveying a range of moods and associations, from the sublime and triumphal to the sinister and paranoid. While they stood, they captured the imagination of the world with their enigmatic symbolism. In their dramatic destruction, they became icons of a history that is still being written. Here viewed in the context of popular cinema, the twin towers are emblematic of how architecture, film and narrative interact to express cultural aspirations and anxieties.
Video Culture in India
Media plays a significant role in reshaping, restructuring, and recalibrating the existing understandings of society and politics, giving birth to new cultural forms. Video, as a medium, captures not only real-time events but also the ethos of a milieu. Video Culture in India: The Analog Era narrates the history of video technology in India since its introduction in the 1980s, locating the moment within the country's socio-political context. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of video technology in post-1980s India: one that speaks to its global history and context and fills the lacunae in the existing literature of the field. The monograph draws on diverse oral histories, disc...
Weave Some More
Catching up with Bhaskar after a gap of ten years had been wonderful. But when Avinash is confronted with the dead body of Bhaskar the next morning, he is assailed with questions for which he can find no answers. Tara, Bhaskar’s wife, cut short her holiday and is asked to identify the disfigured corpse. She hysterically refuses to accept that it is her husband. Inspector Sood is confronted with an unidentified corpse. The Colonel surveys his kingdom and believes the worst of all the people in the colony. Megha and Kartik, the young artist couple, bring a breath of fresh air into this little holiday township. Megha’s accidental death and Kartik’s suicide confuse the whole issue. Does the Inspector find Bhaskar and identify the corpse? Is he able to play hide-and-seek with the murderer? Do Divakar, Bhaskar’s brother, and his wife, Grace, have anything to do with all this? Where does Smita, Bhaskar’s old flame, come in here?
Historical Turns
Historical Turns reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth century. Through bold new analyses of five legendary works of German silent cinema—The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Destiny, Rhythm 21, The Holy Mountain, and Metropolis—Nicholas Baer argues that films of the Weimar Republic lent vivid expression to the crisis of historical thinking. With their experiments in cinematic form and style, these modernist films revealed the capacity of the medium to engage with fundamental questions about the philosophy of history. Reconstructing the debates over historicism that unfolded during the initial decades of moving-image culture, Historical Turns proposes a more reflexive mode of historiography and expands the field of film and media philosophy. The book excavates a rich archive of ideas that illuminate our own moment of rapid media transformation and political, economic, and environmental crises around the globe.
Sovereign Intimacy
"Sovereign Intimacy investigates the relationship between the settler-colonial state and its citizens through the intimating work of media and memory. Using Israel-Palestine as a case study, it tracks how personal family commemoration was channeled and shaped by an emerging private media complex--family videos, freelance filmmaking, grassroots campaigns, and privatized television--enabling a disavowal of the state project of colonial violence through mundane and affective kinship. To the sovereign constitutive rights--the right to life, the right to kill--the book adds another right: the right to love, a right for private life, in the name of which other lives are denied"--
