Spectacles of blood - Swaralipi Nandi

This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of
violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showing how
the cinema challenges, normalizes, or contests these major issues.
Taking an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, drawing from
literature, sociology, and media studies, the essays shed light on films
about societal violence in postcolonial cultures, whether it be
terrorism, suicide bombings, the underworld, organized crime, or mob
violence.

The contributors to Spectacles of Blood look at
the dynamics of the representation of these issues as cinematic plots
and techniques, drawing attention to the affective value of the films in
generating and foregrounding the feelings invoked by the onscreen
violence, and the impact of these emotions on the formation of national
and cosmopolitan identity. International in scope, covering films from
Europe, Asia, and Latin America, these essays enrich both literary
studies and social studies with a nuanced borrowing and intermixing of
their primary texts and modes of interpretation.