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Book Review: Meraj Ahmed Mubarki,Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema,Ghosts and Ideologies and Meheli Sen,Haunting Bollywood: Gender,Genre,and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema
Meraj Ahmed Mubarki, Filming Horror: Hindi Cinema, Ghosts and Ideologies. Delhi: SAGE Publications, 2016, 216 pp., US$45 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-9-3515-0872-4.
Meheli Sen, Haunting Bollywood: Gender, Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi Commercial Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017, pp. 264, US$27.95. ISBN 978–1-4773–1158–5.
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