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LAND AND THE SHADOWS (Record no. 197629)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780143469230
037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION
Terms of availability Purchased
Note H&C Stores,Ernakulam
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 791.43
Item number MUR/LA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Murugan,Perumal
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title LAND AND THE SHADOWS
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Haryana
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Random House
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2025
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Size of unit 395
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Cinema, for Perumal Murugan, was never just flickering images on a screen. It was a field of experience, a gathering ground, a mirror held up to the land itself. In The Land and the Shadows, he returns to the theatres of his youth and to the decades when Tamil cinema became inseparable from the life of the people—the 1950s through the 1970s.<br/><br/>Here, he recalls his boyhood labour in a small-town cinema hall, the thrill of posters and projectors, the songs carried on village winds. From those vivid fragments, Murugan opens out a portrait of Tamil society in transition, where poverty and caste met desire and aspiration in the common darkness of the theatre. The screen was both escape and education, its heroes and heroines shaping speech, gesture and imagination across class and community.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Motion pictures—Social aspects—India—Tamil Nadu
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Motion pictures—History—India—Tamil Nadu
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cinema—India—History and criticism
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gita Subramanian (tr.)
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Koha item type Lending
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Inventory number Total Checkouts Total Renewals Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks 2026-01-08 Purchased 799.00 TD-25-CRB-672,2026/01/02 4 2 791.43 MUR/LA E1102559 2026-08-31 2026-07-02 2026-01-08 Lending