The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Cinema of Emancipation

by Suranjan Ganguly

Book Overview

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India's most distinguished contemporary filmmaker, has made eleven award-winning films and over forty documentaries, most of which are set in his native state of Kerala, in southern India. A 1965 graduate of the Film and Television Institute of Pune, his first film, "Swayamvaram" (1972), heralded the New Wave in Kerala. The region's displacement from a princely feudal state into twentieth-century modernity forms the backdrop...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783084103
• ISBN13: 9781783084104
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"