{"id":728,"date":"2016-07-16T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmwriting.wordpress.com\/?p=109"},"modified":"2016-07-16T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T18:08:13","slug":"con-scripts-of-cinema-framing-the-tamil-third-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/2016\/07\/16\/con-scripts-of-cinema-framing-the-tamil-third-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Con-Scripts of Cinema: Framing the Tamil Third Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>eDhvani (UoH Journal of Comparative Literature, ISSN 2279-0209) Issue 2, January 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Madurai-based films as a study of caste representation in Tamil cinema are common \u2014\u00a0 in academic circles and otherwise. This group of filmmakers \u2014 Sasikumar, Balaji Sakthivel, Ameer and similar \u2014 being called \u2019new wave\u2019 for their raw\/realistic portrayal of life in Madurai is also not new. In this paper, the author explores the deliberate intertwining of the ideas of caste, criminality, civilization, citizenship and community (I swear I didn&#8217;t do this on purpose) in films set in Madurai, that makes it different from the others we&#8217;ve read so far.<\/p>\n<p>After defining \u2018third wave\u2019 (jumping from Dravidian\/political cinema as first wave to Mani Ratnam as second wave),\u00a0 when the author gets to the idea of these film characters being \u2018conscripts of modernity\u2019, the paper hooks one in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Could identities and spaces marked by caste and crime become \u201cconscripts of modernity\u201d?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The author takes us through the idea of a deviant and dangerous hero, in Madurai, living in the middle of excessive violence and caste bigotry. He says, the heroes\u2019 \u201crepresentations provide the citizen-spectator a dangerous\/deviant \u201cother\u201d as an identification to (dis)engage with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While discussing Kaadhal, he argues that \u201cthe fact that the heroic-subject is made mentally insane through the articulation of caste bigotry is an important facet to understand the problems of spectator identification\/citizen-subject. Murugan\u2019s deviance is structurally located in his caste status according to the cinematic apparatus. Hence, his caste-located-body becomes a conscript of cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the paper on Paruthiveeran and Subramaniapuram makes eloquent arguments about this \u201cwave\u201d of films and what they do to citizen-spectators and their identification with the \u2018conscript\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/12235308\/Con-Scripts_of_Cinema_Framing_the_Tamil_Third_Wave\">Here on Academia.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eDhvani (UoH Journal of Comparative Literature, ISSN 2279-0209) Issue 2, January 2013. Madurai-based films as a study of caste representation in Tamil cinema are common \u2014\u00a0 in academic circles and otherwise. This group of filmmakers \u2014 Sasikumar, Balaji Sakthivel, Ameer and similar \u2014 being called \u2019new wave\u2019 for their raw\/realistic portrayal of life in Madurai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[57,94,135,138,187,220,278,314,328,360,370,385,410],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-ameer","tag-cinema","tag-film","tag-film-movement","tag-kaadhal","tag-madurai-films","tag-paruthiveeran","tag-research-papers","tag-sasikumar","tag-subramaniyapuram","tag-tamil","tag-third-wave","tag-veyyil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tharkuri.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}