This chapter maps the received tradition of the Gothic on to the Bollywood Gothic noir. The tradition, it is argued, as it comes to India, is mediated by both the literary Gothic and the pervasive power of the Hollywood film and Gothic noirs. The form that the Bollywood Gothic noir takes is a function of a compromise as the received Western literary and filmic Gothic is deployed to articulate a specifically Hindu narrative of reincarnation. Whereas the idea of an afterdeath in the Western Gothic carried as its basic affect the concept of the uncanny and was alarmingly anti-redemptive, reincarnation narrative postulated that the uncanny was a pre-given capable of recall. However, the presence of the filmic and the literary Gothic as part of ...
Vilnius UniversityThis paper investigates Indian horror films as a site of socio-economical tensions...
This collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars with the aim to shed new...
The amount of studies that have been recently devoted to the Gothic is daunting, but then equally im...
The paper strives to explore various facets of reincarnation as a theme or device in popular Indian ...
Since the early 1990s, Bollywood has witnessed a significant shift from its traditional ‘formulae’, ...
This paper investigates Indian horror films as a site of socio-economical tensions in India at the e...
Vikram and the Undead is a contemporary retelling of a cycle of stories from an eleventh-century San...
This article examines Emile Habiby's Saraya, The Ghoul's Daughter (1991) and Bharati Mukherjee's Jas...
9/11 attacks open the 21st Century into the fear of the Other, which is coincidentally at the core ...
In this paper I hope to show the working principles of two powerful archetypes — the Trickster and t...
In cinematic circles, much has been made of the film noir genre. While debates continue to circulat...
Abstract- The history of Hindi films is more than a hundred years old. In the hundred odd years Hind...
This thesis explores the field of Postcolonial Gothic, initially through an examination of theories ...
Abstract This article focuses on the postmodern contour in Amitav Ghosh’s novels. Former novels pre...
America\u27s embrace of film noir came swift and furiously, the popularity of noir exists even in co...
Vilnius UniversityThis paper investigates Indian horror films as a site of socio-economical tensions...
This collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars with the aim to shed new...
The amount of studies that have been recently devoted to the Gothic is daunting, but then equally im...
The paper strives to explore various facets of reincarnation as a theme or device in popular Indian ...
Since the early 1990s, Bollywood has witnessed a significant shift from its traditional ‘formulae’, ...
This paper investigates Indian horror films as a site of socio-economical tensions in India at the e...
Vikram and the Undead is a contemporary retelling of a cycle of stories from an eleventh-century San...
This article examines Emile Habiby's Saraya, The Ghoul's Daughter (1991) and Bharati Mukherjee's Jas...
9/11 attacks open the 21st Century into the fear of the Other, which is coincidentally at the core ...
In this paper I hope to show the working principles of two powerful archetypes — the Trickster and t...
In cinematic circles, much has been made of the film noir genre. While debates continue to circulat...
Abstract- The history of Hindi films is more than a hundred years old. In the hundred odd years Hind...
This thesis explores the field of Postcolonial Gothic, initially through an examination of theories ...
Abstract This article focuses on the postmodern contour in Amitav Ghosh’s novels. Former novels pre...
America\u27s embrace of film noir came swift and furiously, the popularity of noir exists even in co...
Vilnius UniversityThis paper investigates Indian horror films as a site of socio-economical tensions...
This collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars with the aim to shed new...
The amount of studies that have been recently devoted to the Gothic is daunting, but then equally im...