[Reader-list] Talk : Paper Cuts: Film, Forensics and the Missing Body of Horror @ 6.30 pm at the SAA Auditorium, JNU, New Delhi

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The School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU


invites you to a talk by


Kartik Nair


Monday, 12th January 2015

@ 6.30 pm at the SAA Auditorium, JNU


Please join us for tea at 6.00 pm. All are welcome!


Paper Cuts: Film, Forensics and the Missing Body of Horror


In the late 1970s, a series of graphically violent horror films were submitted for certification by the state-run Central Board of Film Censors 


(CBFC). In this talk, I focus on two of those films - Jaani Dushman and Darwaza - arguing that film genre and film censorship are mutually 


generative in their drive towards the 'offscreen'. Drawing on clips from the films and government records, I search through 'cuts' listed in 


bureaucratic paperwork and undertaken on film prints to locate the missing bodies, sights, and sounds, of screen terror in the aftermath of 


the brutal Emergency.


Kartik Nair is doctoral candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University, where he is writing a dissertation on low-budget horror films in 


1980s India. 


Kartik is an Associate Editor for Bio-Scope, a journal dedicated to South Asian Screen Studies.