The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan

A Cinema of Emancipation

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Film, History & Criticism, Performing Arts
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Author: Suranjan Ganguly ISBN: 9781783084234
Publisher: Anthem Press Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: Anthem Press Language: English
Author: Suranjan Ganguly
ISBN: 9781783084234
Publisher: Anthem Press
Publication: May 1, 2015
Imprint: Anthem Press
Language: English

This first study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s feature films offers a compelling analysis of the socio-historical contexts of his work. Suranjan Ganguly examines how Kerala’s abrupt displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity has shaped Gopalakrishnan’s complex narratives about identity, selfhood and otherness, in which innocence is often at stake, and characters struggle with their consciences. Ganguly places the films within their larger frameworks of guilt and redemption in which the hope of emancipation – moral, spiritual and creative – is real and tangible.

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This first study of Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s feature films offers a compelling analysis of the socio-historical contexts of his work. Suranjan Ganguly examines how Kerala’s abrupt displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity has shaped Gopalakrishnan’s complex narratives about identity, selfhood and otherness, in which innocence is often at stake, and characters struggle with their consciences. Ganguly places the films within their larger frameworks of guilt and redemption in which the hope of emancipation – moral, spiritual and creative – is real and tangible.

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