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    The Image-Regime of Cinema in Postmodern Malayalam Literary Fiction
    (Taylor & Francis, 2019-05) Mathew, Paul
    Scholars have hitherto examined the twentieth century as a period strongly influenced by the cultural and aesthetic impact of cinema. This cultural influence has spread across the globe, through colonial empires and then through globalization. In the south Indian state of Kerala, the influence of this cinematic image-regime is evident in the postmodern fiction that achieves a niche readership in the late 1990s. Postmodern culture in Kerala receives some popular interest in the 1990s, through the pervasiveness of technological culture and ubiquitous access to television and cinema. Through a theoretical and textual engagement with the fiction of Maythil Radhakrishnan, this paper seeks to show that in Kerala, this new mode of writing is made possible and intelligible under the image-regime of cinema. Maythil’s oeuvre expresses its postmodern aesthetics through a new process of articulating thought, space, time and affect1 – a new kind of articulation made possible in the age of cinema.
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    Popular Cinema and the (Re)construction of the Left Popular in Kerala
    (Communication & Journalism Research, 2017) Afzal, P. Muhammed
    Looking at the re-efflorescence of what may be called red films- films that thematize and celebrate the spirit of communism- and the visible presence of left leaning film makers in the Malayam film industry
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    Cinema and the (Re) construction of the Left Popular in Kerala
    (Uiversity of Calicut, 2017) Afzal, P. Muhammed
    Looking at the re-efflorescence of what may be called red f ilms—fi lms that thematize and celebrate the spirit of communism— and the visible presence of Left- leaning fi lm makers in the Malayalam film industry, in this paper I argue how popular cinema has emerged as a key site in the reconstruction of a Malayali national-popular. Despite the apparent distrust the Left in Kerala shows towards popular cinema, the domain of the popular has played a significant role in the construction of a national-popular centred on the linguistic identity in Kerala. While Marxism shares a historical affinity with popular forms such as romance, opera, melodrama, etc., the Left in Kerala shows a renewed interest in the field of culture as a result of the rise of Hindu nationalism in the country which conf lates culture with religion. Apart from the “cultural interventions” of the right-wing, the Left also faces serious challenges from the part of various social movements centred on the question of caste, gender and religious identities. The rise of social movements in the 1990s “brought to the fore the questions of caste and gender that were submerged under the earlier socio-cultural consensus generated by the hegemonic Malayali national popular shaped by the communists” (Devika 2013).
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    Cinematic Exploration of the Changed Realities in the Projection of Gender Specific Roles
    (JLSS, 2013) Shekhawat, Sushila
    Cinema dexterously explores and experiments with the myriad portrayals of women which is diversely rich; they are represented as submissive and oppressed on one hand and educated, open-minded, strong-willed on the other. However, there is a continuous change with respect to the stereotyped image and its depiction. The present paper attempts to highlight not only the different images of women but also the changed perception of the society that has exquisitely been captured in the films made in the recent context.
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    Shifting Images of Women in Contemporary Indian English Feminist Fiction and Indian Hindi Cinema
    (Literary Voice, 2019-03) Shekhawat, Sushila
    Indian English Feminist Fiction and Indian Hindi films have been consistently projecting myriad shades of woman's journey for self-empowerment. Both the mediums enjoy immense popularity among the masses. The present paper focuses on a woman's psychological need to be nurtured and cared for, though ceaseless torments force her to retaliate as she finds it difficult to tolerate the prejudiced behavior. Hence, in her struggle to fulfill her roles and responsibilities as a mother, daughter, wife and a professional she emerges as a woman of substance in spite of all the contraries that assail her life. Manju Kapur's novel, Difficult Daughters and Madhur Bhandarkar's film Satta are the subject of scrutiny in charting out the various points of progression in a woman's life.
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    Contemporary Hindi Films: A Tool for Women Empowerment
    (EJSS, 2019) Shekhawat, Sushila
    Innumerable shades of women have found representation in various media formats such as television, print media, social media, internet, cinema etc. Fight for equality and more prominently human rights has been taken up by several prominent film makers to bring this pertinent issue to the limelight so as to enlighten the masses by exposing the actual story of women being involved. This paper tries to study depiction of women in selected Indian Films to better explore their role in shaping up new perspectives on gender equality playing a significant role in sensitizing people towards the reality associated with the issues. The study would also try to look at the different projections and filmic images which have dared to go beyond the conventional portrayal and created a new identity of the empowered women with examples from films like Fire, Pink, Gulaab gang, Kahaani, etc.