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First published: January 1, 2025 - Last updated: January 1, 2025
TITLE INFORMATION
Author: Shuhita Bhattacharjee
Title: Producing the Vampire
Subtitle: Neo-Victorian Afterlife of the “Un-Dead” and Contemporary Sexual Crime in the Cinema of Anushka Sharma
In: Women in Contemporary Indian Films and Media: Representations and Responses
Edited by: Aysha Viswamohan
Place: London and New York, NY
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2025
Pages: 168-183
ISBN-13: 9781032256832 (hbk.) -
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ISBN-13: 9781032952376 (pbk.) -
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ISBN-13: 9781003583851 (ebk.) -
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Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
21st Century |
Asian History:
India |
Cases:
Fictional Offenders /
Mahendra,
Ifrit;
Cases:
Fictional Victims /
Bulbbul;
Types:
Rape /
Child Sexual Abuse;
Representations:
Films /
Bulbbul,
Pari
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author:
Shuhita Bhattacharjee,
Department of Liberal Arts,
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad -
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Abstracts:
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»In the final chapter of this anthology, “Producing the Vampire: Neo-Victorian Afterlives of the ‘Un-Dead’ and Contemporary Sexual Crime in the Cinema of Anushka Sharma”, Shuhita Bhattacharjee channels the productions of Anushka Sharma to accent the star’s response to sexual violence and disturbing incidents of rape. The writer conflates the theories of vampire myths, gender, and horror and examines how the tropes of female vampirism can metaphorically represent contemporary anxieties related to sexual violence in South Asia«
(Source: Viswamohan, Aysha. »Challenging Norms, Subverting Stereotypes: An Overview of the “New-ness” of Representations.« Women in Contemporary Indian Films and Media: Representations and Responses. Edited by Aysha Viswamohan. London 2025: p. 5.)
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»The essay examines two supernatural horror films co-produced by Anushka Sharma, Pari (2018) and Bulbbul (2020), to understand how they stage the afterlife of the nineteenth-century trope of vampirism through the blood-sucking forms of the female protagonists, Rukhsana and Bulbbul, in order to metaphorically represent contemporary anxieties surrounding sexual violence in South Asia. Produced by Anushka Sharma's Clean Slate Filmz founded in 2013 – the year of the Mumbai Shakti Mills gangrape and one year after the Nirbhaya rape case – and mobilising the figure of the vampire that has historically represented fears of immigration, sexual promiscuity, and moral degeneration, these films by a South Asian female producer draw on the power of the Victorian vampiric metaphor and portray the vampiric protagonists as tormented survivors of rape to dramatise the fears of and protest against sexual violence.«
(Source: Taylor & Francis Online)
Contents:
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Bulbbul and the Vampire-Chudail: Retribution Revisited (p. 174) |
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Pari and the Suffering Fairy: Revising Consent (p. 177) |
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Acknowledgement (p. 180) |
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Notes (p. 180) |
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References (p. 181) |
Wikipedia:
History of Asia:
History of India |
Film:
Hindi Cinema /
Bulbbul,
Pari (2018 Indian film) |
Myth:
Mythological monsters /
Vampire,
Ifrit |
Sex and the law:
Rape /
Rape in India
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