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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
For Our Readers
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 - Indian Cinema and Ideology
Hindi Cinema and Ideology
Cinema in the Colonial Context
2 - Genre, Codes and the Horror Cinema
Genre and its Functionality
Horror Genre and Spectatorship
Freud and the Uncanny
Robin Wood's Return of the Repressed
Julia Kristeva and the Abject
Generic Codes of the Hindi Horror
Conjunctions and Departures with Hollywood
Generic Features of the Hindi Horror
Horror Cinema as Project of/for the ‘Nation’
Nature of the Hindi Horror Genre
3 - Secular Conscious Narrative
Secularism in the Indian Context
Mahal: The Inaugural Moment of the Secular Consciousness
Madhumati
Kohraa
Bhool Bhulaiyaa
4 - Return of Traditional–Cultural Narrative
Jadu Tona
Gehrayee
Phoonk
The Horror in Science Fiction: Between Morals and Mad Scientists
Historicity of the Monstrous Narrative
India and the Discourse of Science
Monstrosities from Science or Monstrous Science?
The Horror of Transmutation
The Triumph of the Traditional/Mythic Order
The Monstrous ‘Other’ Feminine
Mangalsutra and the Monstrous Other Feminine
Veerana
Modernization of Patriarchy and Post-Liberalization Female Monstrosity
Raaz
Eight: The Power of Shani
Darling
5 - The Inflection of the Hindutva ‘Ideo'logic Cinema
1920
Haunted
Conclusion
References
Index
About the Author
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