History of Malayalam Cinema

CONTENTS

* Kerala: the legacy of visual tillage……………………….…2
* The early era (1907-mid-fifties)……………………………….…..3
* 1950s………………………………………………..……….…6
* 1960s………………………………………………..…….……8
* The Malayalam New Wave: 1970s……………………….….10
* 1980s…………………………………………………………..15
* gold age of Malayalam Cinema…………………..……...17
* 1990s………………………………………………..……….…19
* Early-mid 2000s……………………………………………….20
* Late 2000s………………………………………………….….21
* 2010s to the present……………………………………….…..21
* Actors……………………………………………..……………22
* Kerala landed estate Film Awards………………………………….…23
* International Film Festival of Kerala………………………..23
* Film Studios…………………………………...…………..….23
* Organizations………………………………………………….24
* Biggest Grosser of the category from 1980……………………….25
* Reference………………………………….……………….…..26

Kerala: The Legacy of Visual Culture

Even much before the arrival of cinema, the people of Kerala were familiar with moving images on the cloak through the traditional art form tholpavakkuthu (Puppet Dance).



Usually exhibited at festivals of village temples, tholpavakkuthu uses puppets made of leather with flexible joints. These joints are move using sticks and the shadow of these moving puppets are captured on a screen using a light source from behind, creating striking moving images on the screen. Stories from the mythology were told so, with accompanying dialogues and songs with traditional percussions like the Chenda. Tholpavakkuthu uses almost of the techniques widely used in cinema like the close-ups and long-shots.
isolated from the art of tholpavakkuthu, which exhibits the nature of cinema, many of the folk arts and classic dance forms like Kuthu, Koodiyattam and Kathakali exhibits very high visual qualities in their form. May be this legacy of Keralas visual culture lead the filmmakers of Kerala to take up cinema in a different way, rather than mere plain storytelling, than anywhere else in India, and the people of...If you want to get a full essay, redact it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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