TY - BOOK AU - Parthajit Baruah TI - FACE-TO-FACE: Cinema of Adoor Gopalakrishnan SN - 9789351361954 U1 - 791.43095483 PY - 2016////01/01 CY - Uttar Pradesh PB - Harper Collins KW - Screenplays KW - Filmscripts KW - Motion pictures KW - India KW - Kerala N1 - Over four decades and more, Adoor Gopalakrishnan has turned out eleven films of great artistic merit and integrity - all of which use the universal language of human emotions and human psychology to tell the tales of ordinary people tackling life's tribulations. Face-to-Face is a critical introduction to the aesthetics of Adoor's cinema, his development as a film-maker and his engagement with the culture, customs and history of Kerala. It is also a primer to his films, interpreting each thematically and stylistically, throwing light upon his unique way of representing his thematic concerns. Parthajit Baruah's well-researched narrative is a welcome addition to the literature on one of India's greatest film-makers ER -