All posts tagged: Horror

PAGE VIEWS LIVE: A Conversation with Kartik Nair

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Film Quarterly’s original webinar series showcasing the best in recent film and media publications continued this spring with a conversation between Page Views editor Bruno Guaraná (Boston University) and Kartik Nair (Temple University) about his new book Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror (University of California Press, 2024). Taking the materiality of the filmic image as a starting point for investigating gaps in the historical record, Nair brings a welcome spotlight to Indian cinema’s forgotten horror wave of the 1970s and 1980s. Moderated by FQ editor-in-chief Rebecca Prime.

Seeing Things: A Conversation with Kartik Nair

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Directed by two members of family of filmmakers known as the Ramsay Brothers, pioneers of Indian horror cinema, the 1988 film Veerana (Shyam Ramsay and Tulsi Ramsay) centers on the figure of the chudail, or witch, as she haunts the surroundings of a mansion. She seduces men while in womanly form, only to later reveal her horrific nature.

The Brand of Peele

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This essay reconsiders Jordan Peele by parsing his hitherto overlooked extratextual authorship. Occasioned by the recent release of Peele’s third feature, Nope (2022), this article begins by considering Peele’s most stable authorial hallmark: deceptive ontologies involving body snatching, doppelgangers, and alien camouflage.

The H-Man vs Liquid Human

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I remember seeing The H-ManThe H-Man on television one late evening in early adolescence; it was a silly specimen of an already cheesy 1950s genre, the “made in Japan” sci-fi/horror film . . . But a DVD explosion has caused The H-Man to mutate into a beautiful and genuinely harrowing new form:

All That Is Solid Melts Into War

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The problems war presents film columnists are negligible by any human measure. But by the measure of Cultural Studies, the problems are near-absolute. War is war in part because it has the force to warp the world around it, even at a great distance, so thoroughly that every third song, advert, or movie seems to be about the war. In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again to notice the obvious: the sphere of culture is always “based on a true story.”