Things Fall Apart
The Cinematic Rendition of Agrarian Landscape in South India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2158181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dilip M Menon (0000-0002-5557-0073, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-334 |
| Publication date | 2005-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03066150500094519 |
| OpenAlex | W2152362074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article explores the transitional decade of the 1970s in the history of the southwestern state of Kerala, India, through the films and novels of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, arguably the most important litterateur in Kerala today. After the historic election of a Communist ministry to power in 1957, Kerala then stepped gingerly back from a radical politics and moved towards a restitution of an older masculine, agrarian order. By looking at the shifts in politics and the social order simultaneously with the progression of Vasudevan Nair's own filmic sensibility, the article raises the question of whether historical time and filmic time can be easily mapped on to each other
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Christian ministry · Communism · Order (exchange · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Restitution · Sociology · State (computer science · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |