Malavika P Pillai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3080221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malavika P Pillai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malavika P |
| FAMILY NAME | Pillai |
| SIGNATURE | PILLAI M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0437-9567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Darkness
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This article expands on the initial version of “The Epistemology of Darkness: Many Meanings of Night in Malayalam Cinema,” which was published in Chalachitra Sameeeksha, a regional magazine issued by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRajesh JamesRajesh James is an independent documentary filmmaker and an Assista…
The long journey home
After the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, India saw a mass departure of migrant labourers from urban to native rural areas on foot, by cycle or with available means of transportation due to unexpected unemployment and poverty. This paper attempts to analyse various instances of this incident from the documentary film 1232 KMs (2021) directed by Vinod Kapri. Analysing the film within the framework of viapolitics, this study looks at t…
Eco-caste Migrants in Kerala
With hundreds of people losing their houses and properties, climate change and its related disasters have changed the face of humanity. This has had a considerable impact on popular visual media such as film as well. From the conventional romanticized portrayal of nature in Malayalam films, a few contemporary Malayalam films have sensitized the ecological issues and the predicaments of its victims. This marks the shift from the idealized portraya…
Rethinking Darkness
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This article expands on the initial version of “The Epistemology of Darkness: Many Meanings of Night in Malayalam Cinema,” which was published in Chalachitra Sameeeksha, a regional magazine issued by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRajesh JamesRajesh James is an independent documentary filmmaker and an Assista…
The long journey home
After the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, India saw a mass departure of migrant labourers from urban to native rural areas on foot, by cycle or with available means of transportation due to unexpected unemployment and poverty. This paper attempts to analyse various instances of this incident from the documentary film 1232 KMs (2021) directed by Vinod Kapri. Analysing the film within the framework of viapolitics, this study looks at t…
Eco-caste Migrants in Kerala
With hundreds of people losing their houses and properties, climate change and its related disasters have changed the face of humanity. This has had a considerable impact on popular visual media such as film as well. From the conventional romanticized portrayal of nature in Malayalam films, a few contemporary Malayalam films have sensitized the ecological issues and the predicaments of its victims. This marks the shift from the idealized portraya…
The long journey home
After the nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, India saw a mass departure of migrant labourers from urban to native rural areas on foot, by cycle or with available means of transportation due to unexpected unemployment and poverty. This paper attempts to analyse various instances of this incident from the documentary film 1232 KMs (2021) directed by Vinod Kapri. Analysing the film within the framework of viapolitics, this study looks at t…
Rethinking Darkness
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 This article expands on the initial version of “The Epistemology of Darkness: Many Meanings of Night in Malayalam Cinema,” which was published in Chalachitra Sameeeksha, a regional magazine issued by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy.Additional informationNotes on contributorsRajesh JamesRajesh James is an independent documentary filmmaker and an Assista…
Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Caste (1 work)