Don't Disturb the Dead: The Story of the Ramsay Brothers - Couverture souple

Dasgupta, Shamya

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9352644301 ISBN 13 : 9789352644308

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017

Synopsis

In the 1970s and 80s a period of churn in Hindi films, when commercial cinema was at its Amitabh Bachchan-fuelled peak and art-house movies were truly pushing the envelope the Ramsay brothers burst on to the scene with their horror film-making spree. They were subaltern films (of a sort), yes. Disruptive too. The industry refused to acknowledge them and indeed hardly knew what to make of the movies, but the audience took to them with gusto. All these decades later, the family name remains synonymous with horror movies in India even among those who have never watched a Ramsay flick. But who were these film-makers really? Where did they come from? What impelled them? How did they pull it off? Don t Disturb the Dead is the story of their cinema, their methods and madnesses, about horror movies as a business model and more. It is also an open-minded and affectionate ode to the disreputable Ramsay films and to a family that was once a genre in itself. Through interviews with members of the family, the people they worked with and through archival material on their work, the book traces the legend of the Ramsay brothers one of the most fascinating families in cinema anywhere and one whose contribution to cinema deserves to be recognized.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shamya Dasgupta has been a journalist for close to two decades and is currently senior editor with Wisden India. He is also the author of Bhiwani Junction: The Untold Story of Boxing in India (HarperCollins India) and Cricket Changed My Life: Stories of Hope and Despair from the IPL and Elsewhere (Scholastic) and has translated Mahashweta Devi s Laayl-e Aasmaaner Aayna (Seagull Books, forthcoming).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9352644301
• ISBN 13: 9789352644308
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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