Casting the Cast Changing Sensibilities in Malayalam Cinema and the Dalit Question

About the Book: Casting the Cast explores how Malayalam commercial cinema which are often advertised as popular hits tend to uphold casteist values either directly or indirectly. The book meticulously unfolds the hidden patterns of casteist operations that are powerful enough to decide the content perspectival dimensions and even the cast of the cinema. Also it sheds light to the representational space enjoyed by the politically socially and even historically marginalized community of India in the so-called democratic cultural realm of Malayalam cinema. About the Author: Mohammed Musthafa K.P. is an academician for a decade. He has been working as Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Farook College Kozhikode Kerala. His area of expertise includes Film Studies Cultural Communication and Mappila Studies. He has published various articles on cinema in different Malayalam magazines.