The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods: The Movie Thiruvilayadal (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film

The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template - a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, IN 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South a...

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Subtitles:"Here Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion"
Authors: Gopalkrishnan, Sreeram (Author) ; Sreeram, Lekshmi (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Institut f. Fundamentaltheologie 2023
In: Journal for religion, film and media
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-142
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Thiruvilayadal (Film) / Tamil language / Dravidians / Identity / Śiva / Darshan
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBM Asia
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Religious Films
B Dravidianism
B Shaivism
B Tamil Language
B Darshanic Gaze
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