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The Gulf in the imagination: Migration, Malayalam cinema and regional identity
This article, taking up for analysis the three-decade-long relationship between the economy influenced by the Gulf and Malayalam cinema, in its industrial and narrative context, argues that the Gulf has been a significant point of reference for the imagining of a cultural identity in Kerala. It atte...
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| 格式: | Printed Book |
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Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.)
2009
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| 在線閱讀: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006568.pdf |
| 總結: | This article, taking up for analysis the three-decade-long relationship between the economy
influenced by the Gulf and Malayalam cinema, in its industrial and narrative context,
argues that the Gulf has been a significant point of reference for the imagining of a cultural
identity in Kerala. It attempts to weave together three aspects—the development models
that are in place, the economic conditions within which the film industry operates and the
textual aspects of the films produced—to foreground the links between the economy,
aesthetics and the imagining of regional identity. I argue that the contestation over regional
identity was played out on aesthetic grounds, where the wealth and objects associated
with the Gulf economy were deployed both at the formal and thematic levels, to produce
claims about the legitimacy and desirability of the changes that become visible in the eco-
nomic and social hierarchies within the region. The article examines the representations
of the Gulf within the region, using select films from the commercial and art house cinemas
of the 1970s, and middlebrow cinema of the 1980s and the turn of the century. These are
read along with the economic changes within the film industry and the discourse of
development in the region to mark the shifts that have happened to the desires and despairs
associated with the Gulf dream. |
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| 實物描述: | p.217–45 43, 2 (2009) |