There Once Was a Maiden and a Middle Class: The Making of a Neoliberal Thriller

Abstract

Coinciding with India's turn to neoliberalism, a new genre—the conspiracy thriller—has appeared in popular Hindi cinema. Its aesthetics of speed, movement, and surprise express the fear and furious reasoning of an individual who must save her- or himself from a conspiracy that threatens to destroy them. This article contextualizes the genre in the urban spaces of neoliberalism, its architecture of private enclosures, and the paranoid subjectivities it has produced.

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