Malayalam Kambi Novels Using Cinema Spoofing

3. Theoretical Framework: Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque and the Subversion of the Sacred

The camera is always rolling in the mind. The director is always anonymous. And the climax is always written in invisible ink on the back of a movie ticket. Malayalam Kambi Novels Using Cinema Spoofing

Visually, these novels were a riot. Graphic designers would crudely Photoshop the faces of famous actors onto the bodies of models, or use a collage of movie stills that suggested a much steamier narrative than the actual film ever intended. Malayalam Kambi Novels Using Cinema Spoofing