01526nam a2200265 4500 260110b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780143469230 Purchased H&C Stores,Ernakulam English 791.43 MUR/LA Murugan,Perumal LAND AND THE SHADOWS 1 Haryana Penguin Random House 2025 395 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. 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. Motion pictures—Social aspects—India—Tamil Nadu Motion pictures—History—India—Tamil Nadu Cinema—India—History and criticism Gita Subramanian (tr.) LEN ddc ddc ddc 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN GEN 2026-01-08 Purchased 799.00 TD-25-CRB-672,2026/01/02 4 2 791.43 MUR/LA E1102559 2026-08-31 12:16:20 2026-07-02 2026-01-08 LEN 197629 197629