Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran is a professor in the Department of English and the School of Journalism at Michigan State University. He isagraduate of the betboom sports betting and Television Institute of India, the premier betboom sports betting school in Asia, and the prestigious betboom sports betting studies program at the University of Iowa. He is an accomplished filmmaker, and his recent documentaries includeTsunami: Waves from the Deep(2018),Hmong Memories at the Crossroad(2016),Migrations of Islam(2014), andUnfinished Journey: A City in Transition(2012). His betboom sports betting focuses on the history, theory, and production of documentaries, and the specificity of Tamil cinema, and its intricate relationship with Hollywood as well as popular Hindi films. His books includeManudamaum Mandiyiduthalum(Parisal, 2019), an anthology of essays on cinema in Tamil andMadras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology in Tamil Cinema(Sage Publications, 2015). His fiction featureKattumaram(Catamaran, 2019), a collaboration with Tamil’s cinema’s leading director Mysskin, is currently on the betboom sports betting festival circuit.
“Dalit Life, Tamil Cinema and Masculinity: Interventions of Pa. Ranjith and Mari Selvaraj.Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 50 (Dec. 2023). http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue50/eswaran.pdf
“Leena Manimekalai’s Is It Too Much to Ask? — Tenancy, Transphobia, and Tamil Society.” Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary betboom sports betting, 61 (Fall 2022), Ejumpcut.org. Accessed 23 Feb. 2023. https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive//jc61.2022/SwarnavalEswaran/index.html
“Maadathy - An Unfairy Tale: Caste, Space, and Gaze.” CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, 3 (1) April 2022, pp. 163–180.
"Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan: History, Horror, and Culture.” Mise-en-scène: The Journal of betboom sports betting & Visual Narration. 6 (2), 2021. https://journals.kpu.ca/index.php/msq/article/view/1579
“Death Rides a Horse and Its Influence on Indian Cinema.” FemAsia: Asian Women’s Journal. 25 Oct. 2020. http://femasiamagazine.com/death-rides-a-horse-and-its-influence-on-indian-cinema/
“Contemporary Tamil cinema and Its Departure from the Mainstream: Manusangada/Cry Humanity and To Let.” Jump Cut (2019) 59 (Fall Issue), https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc59.2019/Eswaren-Tamil/
“Periyar as Biopic: Star Persona, Historical Events, and Politics." Biography (Winter 2017) 40 (1), pp. 93-115.
“Cinematography and the Poetics of 1950s Tamil Cinema: Maruthi Rao and Visual Style." Screen (2017) 58 (1), pp. 73-81. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjx009
“James Bonds (OSS 117 and C.I.D. Shankar) in the Global South: Orientalism, ‘Mad Scientists,’ and Technology.” In Global James Bond: (Re)Imagining and Transplanting a Popular Culture Icon. Lisa Funnell and Klaus Daudds (eds). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2024.
“The Trajectory of Tamil in Cinema.” The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages (online edition, Oxford Academic). R. Amritavalli and Bhuvana Narasimhan (eds), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197610411.013.25 16 August 2023.
“Dravidian Ideologues and Tamil Cinema.” In betboom sports betting Studies: An Introduction, Vebhuti Duggal, Bindu Menon, and Spandan Bhattacharya (Eds.). New Delhi: Worldview Publications, 2022, pp. 270-279. [Reprint from Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology, Sage Publications, 2015.]
“Post Millennial Tamil Cinema: Transitional Generation and the Traces of Continuity.” In Selvaraj Velayutham and Vijay Devadas. eds. Tamil Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Caste, Gender, and Technology. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 161-178.
“Tamil Comics: New betboom sports betting, revival, and the recovery of history.” Reprint in Rajinder Dudrah and Dawosn Varughese E. eds., Graphic Novels and Visual Cultures in South Asia. New York: Routledge: 2020.
“The trajectory of Amitabh Bachchan’s Young/Old Man Persona From Mainstream to Indie Cinema.” In Ashvin Immanuel Devasudaram ed. Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood: The New Independent Cinema Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 161-182.
Kattumaram (Catamaran), 2019 (Writer, Director, and Producer), Fiction, 73 min.
Screening and Discussion, at Maine betboom sports betting Center. Organized by Prof. Amrutha Kunapulli, Colby College. 15 November 2023.
Screening and Discussion at 122 Wells Hall, MSU. 22 September 2022.
“betboom sports betting Screening and Discussion: Kattumaram (Catamaran).” Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University. 30 Sept. 2021.
Kattumaram: Screening and Discussion. “Seminar Series.” South Asia Institute: The University of Texas at Austin. 4 March 2021.
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Switzerland, 22 & 29 at Frauenfeld, Nov. and 1 & 8 Zurich, Dec. 2020.
Official Selection, Perlen Queer betboom sports betting Festival,
Hannover, Germany.17 October. 2020.
Selected for Channel Four’s Prestigious Indian betboom sports betting Season,
Telecast on 15 Sept. 2020.
Official Selection, AKS International Minorities betboom sports betting Festival,
Lahore, Pakistan, 27 March. 2020.
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Amsterdam, 15 & 22 March. 2020.
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Honolulu Art Museum, Hawaii, 23 & 27 Jan. 2020.
Official Selection, Kashish Chalchitra Utsav/betboom sports betting Festival,
Bombay Art Society, Mumbai, 19 Jan. 2020.
Official Selection, New York Indian betboom sports betting Festival, East Village Cinema,
New York, 10 May 2019.
Official Selection, InsideOut Toronto LGBT betboom sports betting Festival, TIFF Bell Lighthouse,
Toronto, 31 May 2019.
Official Selection, 10th Kashish Mumbai International Queer betboom sports betting Festival, Liberty Cinema,
Mumbai, 15 June 2019.
Official Selection, London Indian betboom sports betting Festival,
BFI Southbank, London, 21 June 2019.
Official Selection, 43rd Frameline LGBTQI betboom sports betting Festival,
Roxie Theater, San Francisco, 23 June 2019.
Official Selection, 43rd Frameline LGBTQI betboom sports betting Festival,
Landmark Shattuck Cinemas, San Francisco, 27 June 2019.
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Cineworld, Leicester Square, London, 29 June 2019.
Official Selection, aGLIFF LGBTQ International betboom sports betting Festival,
Austin, Texas, 25 August 2019.
Official Selection, Regional betboom sports betting Festival: New Genres in Indian Cinema,
Goethe Institute, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, India. 31 August 2019.
Official Selection, Singapore South Asian International betboom sports betting Festival,
Singapore, 1 Sept. 2019.
Official Selection, Lonavala International betboom sports betting Festival,
Lonavala, Maharashtra, India, 14 Sept. 2019.
Official Selection, Chicago South Asian betboom sports betting Festival,
Icon Show Place Cinema, Chicago, 21 Sept. 2019.
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Glasgow, 4 Oct. 2019.
Official Selection, 14th Tasveer South Asian betboom sports betting Festival,
Seattle, 5 Oct. 2019.
Official Selection, Outwatch LGBTQI betboom sports betting Festival,
Sebastopol, California, 5 Oct. 2019.
Official Selection, Tampa Bay International Gay and Lesbian betboom sports betting Festival,
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Official Selection, Seattle Queer betboom sports betting Festival, Three Dollar Bill Cinema,
Seattle, 16 Oct. 2019.
Official Selection, InsideOut Ottawa LGBTQ betboom sports betting Festival, National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa, Canada, 27 Oct. 2019.
Nagapattinam Waves from the Deep, 2018 (Director, Editor, Videographer and Producer), Documentary, 73 min.
Screening and Discussion, “Asia and Its Diaspora,” Panel, RMMLA Convention, Organized by Prof. Sri Craven,
Maryland Port University, 12 October 2023.
Official Selection, Social Justice betboom sports betting Festival,
Chennai, India. 18 Sept, 2021.
Official Selection. Indian World betboom sports betting Festival,
Hyderabad, India. 8 March 2020.
Official Selection. Darbhanga International betboom sports betting Festival – 2019, Sahil Cineplex,
Darbhanga, Bihar, India. 2 Feb. 2019.
Official Selection. 6th Noida International betboom sports betting Festival – 2019,
Noida, Delhi, India. 27 Jan. 2019.
Official Selection. 11th Jaipur International betboom sports betting Festival – 2019,
Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. 22 Jan. 2019.
Official Selection. World Premiere. Madurai International Documentary and Short betboom sports betting Festival, 20th Anniversary.
Madurai. 10 Dec. 2018.
Earlier, my decade long work- documentary on Tsunami relief and rehabilitation (2004 - 2014) at Nagapattinam, the coastal town in South India was screened for response and revisions. The First Cut. Chicago Tamil Forum.
Foster Hall, University of Chicago. 20 May 2016.
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