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DESCRIPTION: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. In his forthcoming book\, Kartik Nair tells the story of how these films were made\, censored\, and seen. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts\, botched makeup effects\, continuity errors\, and celluloid damage found in these movies. These may very well be "failures\," but they are also clues to the conditions in which the films were made\, censored\, and seen. This talk focuses on one instance of visual failure: a vampire in the daylight\, seen in an over-exposed film print of Bandh Darwaza (Closed Door\, Shyam and Tulsi Ramsay\, 1990). Nair asks what such an error exposes about the conventions of horror films\, and of the materiality of those conventions. By combining close analysis with extensive archival research and original interviews\, Nair illuminates the infrastructures informing the genre's haunted houses\, grotesque bodies\, and graphic violence\, thereby offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture.\n\nKartik Nair is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. His first book\, Seeing Things\, explores the conventions of horror films for material histories of their creation. Seeing Things is forthcoming with University of California Press in 2024. His writing has appeared in Film Quarterly\, the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books\, among other venues. Nair is a core editor of BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies\, and is at work on a second book roject exploring the infrastructures of contemporary blockbuster cinema. This event is open to the general public.  https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/calendar/details.html?EventID=54460&amp\;booking=1SEQUENCE:0\n\nhttps://today.coloradocollege.edu/events/6806
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LOCATION:Cornerstone 131 (Screening Room) - Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center\, 825 N. Cascade Ave.
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SUMMARY:Seeing Things: A VSFC Lecture with Kartik Nair
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