Cultures of Critical Writing on FilmInterview
Roland Barthes
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P. Bharathiraja, the veteran director of many blockbusters in Tamil cinema, provides us with an insight into his 2008 release, Bommalattam. Bommalattam, he says, is a metaphor for cinema. He goes back to his days of childhood in the village where there were bommalattam (puppet) artists …
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Cinema is a collective achievement arising out of the negotiated interactions between the producer, consumer and the filmic text. The understanding of the filmic text is headed in two ways. On the one hand, cinema can be understood as a sequence of events and spectacles that form the…
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The Indian subcontinent has always boasted of cultural traditions which are colourful and vibrant. These traditions, whose values have been transmitted from one generation to another, are manifested as distinct, regional representational forms. They reflect a creative artistic process which affects…
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Subuhi Jiwani: What are your thoughts on film criticism as a practice?
Ashish Rajadhyaksha: Speaking autobiographically, one reason I didn’t get into the profession of reviewing (in the narrow sense) is that I have never been interested in the idea of evaluative criticism, where you try to do an…
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