Lalitha Gopalan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5447441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lalitha Gopalan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lalitha |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopalan |
| SIGNATURE | GOPALAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Time of Boxing: Pa. Ranjith’s Sarpatta Parambarai
This article considers the history of Tamil action films from the point of the burgeoning special effects with the advent of digital artifacts in the 21st century. Focusing on Tamil cinema director Pa Ranjith’s Sarpatta Parambarai (2021), the article explores how this “sports action boxing film” resorts to various kinds of digital compositing techniques to mount a Dalit mise en scene set in the 1970s North Chennai during a period of authoritarian…
An Aperture Toward Abstraction in Tejal Shah's Moving-Image Works
This article explores the moving image practice of the India based queer artist Tejal Shah. Acknowledging their preeminent status as a queer artist and activist whose media works have been exhibited widely in urban locations since the early 2000, this approach opens with a Chingari Chumma/Stinging Kiss (2000), a video work completed in collaboration with Anuj Vaidya. In this reading, we note their investment in queer subculture tied to an equally…
The enchanted worlds of the FTII Diploma films
In 1954 a directive from the Film Inquiry Committee, under the auspices of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of India, recommended the creation of a film school, and accordingly the Film Institute of India was established in the grounds of the former Prabhat Studio in 1960. An expansion that included the introduction of television saw the institute renamed in 1972 as the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). As is the case glo…
The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of The Cambridge World History, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The second book questions the extent to which the transformations of the modern world have been shared, focussin…
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Books on Bollywood
Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema
A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions and heavy traces of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a Cinema of Interruptions. To the uninitiated viewer, brought up on the seamless linear plotting of Hollywood narrative, this unfamiliar ten…
M. Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction
M. Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: a Historical Construction Get access M. Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: a Historical Construction. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, 268 pp. Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 41, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 244–248, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.2.244 Published: 01 July 2000
Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory', Chennai, India, 15-19 August 1997
Journal Article ‘Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory’, Chennai, India, 15–19 August 1997 Get access Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 196–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.2.196 Published: 01 July 1998
Panoramic View
News| October 01 1991 Panoramic View: Indian Cinema in 1991 The International Film Festival of India, Madras, India, Jan. 10-20 Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1991) 19 (3): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1991.19.3.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables …
Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory', Chennai, India, 15-19 August 1997
Journal Article ‘Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory’, Chennai, India, 15–19 August 1997 Get access Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 196–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.2.196 Published: 01 July 1998
Panoramic View
News| October 01 1991 Panoramic View: Indian Cinema in 1991 The International Film Festival of India, Madras, India, Jan. 10-20 Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1991) 19 (3): 3. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1991.19.3.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables …
Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory', Chennai, India, 15-19 August 1997
Journal Article ‘Tamil Cinema: History, Culture, Theory’, Chennai, India, 15–19 August 1997 Get access Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 39, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 196–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/39.2.196 Published: 01 July 1998
M. Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction
M. Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: a Historical Construction Get access M. Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: a Historical Construction. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998, 268 pp. Lalitha Gopalan Lalitha Gopalan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 41, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 244–248, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/41.2.244 Published: 01 July 2000
Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema
A framework for understanding the distinctiveness of Indian cinema as a national cinema within a global context dominated by Hollywood is proposed by this book. With its sudden explosions into song-and-dance sequences, half-time intermissions and heavy traces of censorship, Indian cinema can be identified as a Cinema of Interruptions. To the uninitiated viewer, brought up on the seamless linear plotting of Hollywood narrative, this unfamiliar ten…
Books on Bollywood
Bombay
The Cambridge World History: Volume 7, Production, Destruction and Connection 1750-Present, Part 2, Shared Transformations?
Since 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-based modes of transport and communication. Volume 7 of The Cambridge World History, divided into two books, offers a variety of angles of vision on the increasingly interconnected history of humankind. The second book questions the extent to which the transformations of the modern world have been shared, focussin…
The enchanted worlds of the FTII Diploma films
In 1954 a directive from the Film Inquiry Committee, under the auspices of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of India, recommended the creation of a film school, and accordingly the Film Institute of India was established in the grounds of the former Prabhat Studio in 1960. An expansion that included the introduction of television saw the institute renamed in 1972 as the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). As is the case glo…
An Aperture Toward Abstraction in Tejal Shah's Moving-Image Works
This article explores the moving image practice of the India based queer artist Tejal Shah. Acknowledging their preeminent status as a queer artist and activist whose media works have been exhibited widely in urban locations since the early 2000, this approach opens with a Chingari Chumma/Stinging Kiss (2000), a video work completed in collaboration with Anuj Vaidya. In this reading, we note their investment in queer subculture tied to an equally…
In the Time of Boxing: Pa. Ranjith’s Sarpatta Parambarai
This article considers the history of Tamil action films from the point of the burgeoning special effects with the advent of digital artifacts in the 21st century. Focusing on Tamil cinema director Pa Ranjith’s Sarpatta Parambarai (2021), the article explores how this “sports action boxing film” resorts to various kinds of digital compositing techniques to mount a Dalit mise en scene set in the 1970s North Chennai during a period of authoritarian…
Art (6 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (6 works) · Art history (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · History (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Geography (2 works)