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041			_aEnglish
082			_a791.43 _bMUR/LA
100			_aMurugan,Perumal
245			_aLAND AND THE SHADOWS
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260			_aHaryana _bPenguin Random House _c2025
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500			_aCinema, 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.
650			_aMotion pictures—Social aspects—India—Tamil Nadu
650			_aMotion pictures—History—India—Tamil Nadu
650			_aCinema—India—History and criticism
700			_aGita Subramanian (tr.)
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