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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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Kartik Nair
About
Kartik Nair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Temple University. His current book project focuses on the production, regulation, and circulation of horror films in 1980s' India. Nair's research interests include the phenomenology of effects spectatorship, realist film theory, and mise en scene as an archive of historical film practices. His writing has appeared in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Film Quarterly, and the edited volume Terror and the Cinematic Sublime.
Areas of Focus
the phenomenology of effects spectatorship; the CGI body; prosthetic makeup effects in Indian horror cinema
Relevant Publications
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