Aesthetic dislocations: A re-take on Malayalam cinema of the 1970s

The centrality of South Indian cinemas in ‘New Indian Cinema’, one of the many cultural constellations of the turbulent and vibrant 1970s, has been widely acknowledged. Focusing on the aesthetic structuring of select moments from Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Swayamvaram, K.P. Kumaran’s Athithi and P.A. Ba...

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Main Author: Ratheesh Radhakrishnan
Format: Printed Book
Published: South Asian Popular Culture 2012
Subjects:
SWAYAMVARAM - MALAYALAM MOVIE; > ATHITHI - MALAYALAM MOVIE > KABANEE NADHI CHUVANNAPPOL - MALAYALAM MOVIE; > ADOOR GOPALAKRISHNAN; > P. A. BACKER; > K. P. KUMARAN > MALAYALAM FILM - CRITICISM
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/006564.pdf
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