"Paper Cuts: Film, Forensics & the Missing Body of Horror" a talk by Kartik Nair at School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road > 6:30pm on 12th January 2015

Time : 6:30 pm (Tea at 6:00 pm) Add to Calendar 12-01-2015 18:30:00 12-01-2015 20:00:00 68 "Paper Cuts: Film, Forensics & the Missing Body of Horror" a talk by Kartik Nair Event Page : http://goo.gl/M9Y8ES School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium (SAA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi - 110067

Venue Info : www.jnu.ac.in | SAA Map
Nearest Metro Stations - 'Hauz Khas(Yellow Line)' &  'Delhi Aerocity(Orange Line)'

Event Description : "Paper Cuts: Film, Forensics and the Missing Body of Horror" a talk by Kartik Nair.

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.

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