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.
- ISBN10 1783084103
- ISBN13 9781783084104
- Publish Date 1 May 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Anthem Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 178
- Language English