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"Grounded in excellent scholarship and analysis, this book is beautifully written, interesting, and full of stimulating and surprising insights. It will stand out in the field as one of the more imaginative and rigorous interventions of recent years." -- Rosie Thomas, University of Westminster, author of Bombay Before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies "A very rich and rigorously informed study that will have a wide readership. The historical arc of Sen's concerns is impressive and convincingly important." -- Amit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London, author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Haunted Havelis and Hapless Heroes: Gender, Genre, and the Hindi Gothic Film
• 2. The Ramsay Rampage: Horror as Emergency Cinema
• 3. Ravishing Reptiles: Magic, Masala, and the Hindi “Snake Film”
• 4. Present Imperfect: Bollywood and the Ghosts of Neoliberalism
• 5. The Planetary Paranormal: Millennial Mythos and the Disassembly of the “Hindi Film”
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Meheli Sen is an assistant professor in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) and the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers University. She is the coeditor of Figurations in Indian Film.

Reviews

Haunting Bollywood is an insightful volume that makes several important contributions to Indian cinema scholarship, including the consolidation of seemingly disparate bodies of films. . . . [It] is a welcome addition to scholarship on Indian cinema and an essential read for its students.
*Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television*