ഭ്രമയുഗം എന്ന സിനിമയിലെ അധികാരവും അടിച്ചമർത്തലും തമ്മിലുള്ള സങ്കീർണ്ണമായ ബന്ധവും അതിനെതിരായ പ്രതിരോധവും ഫൂക്കോയുടെ സിദ്ധാന്തങ്ങളുടെ വെളിച്ചത്തിൽ അരുൺ വിശകലനം ചെയ്യുന്നു.
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Tag: cinema
Cilmem Mappilem: Qualifying the Mappila Representation in Popular Malayalam Cinema
How is the Mappila ‘qualified’ in Malayalam Cinema? Ahnas Muhammed dives deep into the popular cinematic representations of the Malabar Muslim identities and explores how the changing representations have reshaped societal perceptions and cultural values.
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Feminist Film Historiography and The Curious Case of Gossip and Archive
How and where do we situate the “archival” when it comes to film historiography? In this article, Mydhily takes us[…]
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ബിഹാറിൽ നിന്നും “മലബാർ സിനിമ”കൾ കാണുമ്പോൾ: ഗൾഫ് കുടിയേറ്റവും പ്രാദേശിക ബന്ധങ്ങളും
മലയാള സിനിമ OTT വഴി ഇന്ത്യയിലുടനീളമുള്ള നഗരങ്ങളിലെ ഉന്നതർക്ക് എത്തുന്ന ഈ കാലത്ത്, മലയാള സിനിമകളെ വളരെക്കാലമായി ആസ്വദിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള ഗൾഫ് കുടിയേറ്റക്കാർക്കിടയിലെ പ്രദേശാന്തര കാഴ്ച്ചക്കാരെ നാം മറക്കുന്നു.[…]
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Watching ‘Malabari Films’ in Bihar: Gulf Migration and Transregional Connections
Even as OTT brings Malayalam cinema to urban elites across India, we forget the transregional viewership that Malayalam cinema has long enjoyed among Gulf migrants. Drawing from his own life, Nehal reflects on how Malayalam cinema speaks to the Bihari Gulf migrant experience.
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The Holy Family Severed: Kaathal’s Reconstitution of the Heteronormative Family in Malayalam Cinema
The recently released film, Kaathal, has ignited public discussions of gender and sexuality in Kerala. But to what extent does it subvert Kerala’s norms around family, caste, and class? Sandra Elizabeth Joseph reflects.
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Scary Spaces: Technology and Horror in Chathurmukham
The ways in which we have come to negotiate with the presence of technology in our lives are multiple and varied. Himaganga revisits the 2021 Malayalam film Chathurmukham to see how the techno-horror genre represents some of the anxieties that surround the pervasiveness of media devices in our everyday lives.
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Kerala’s Painkili Romance with Pulp Fiction
Pulp fiction in Kerala remains a genre that does not receive much attention, despite the significant role it has played in cultivating a reading culture in Kerala. Serialised novels in Malayalam weeklies had readers hooked for decades. Shibu B S delves into the rich world of painkili (‘songbird’) novels in Kerala.
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[Podcast] Rethinking ‘Keraleeyatha’: Behind the Malayalam Cinema ‘Brand’
With streaming services bringing transnational attention to Malayalam cinema, it becomes important to examine the nature of Kerala’s “new gen” cinema and to locate it in a longer history. C S Venkiteswaran, film critic, Don Palathara, film director, and Jolly Chirayath, actor, feature in Ala’s first audio essay on cinema in Kerala.
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The Ecology of Purushapretham (2023)
Purushapretham has been among this year’s most intriguing releases so far, seeming like a police procedural at the outset but revealing hidden depths. Deepti delves into how the director draws viewers into a complex ecology of human and nonhuman actors, marking an exciting addition to the emergent ‘cli-fi’ genre in Malayalam cinema.
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