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Behind the Mask
Reading Aravinda in Viragaya
A human being is born into a social, cultural and linguistic network. This is the symbolic world, which is ready to accept the...
Behind the Mask
Double reading Viragaya
Roland Barthe’s concept the ‘Death of the Author’ does not refer to a naïve idea of the author’s physical death. It is a symbolic...
Behind the Mask
Reading our inner desire through cinema
Continued from last week...Asoka Handagama is a prominent film maker in Sri Lankan cinema. His debut effort in cinema was Chanda...
Behind the Mask
Mirror stage
We are going through a period called mirror stage and that is referred to as the imaginary stage in Lacanian theoretical...
Behind the Mask
Reimagining movie screen as a mirror
I begin this writing asking two questions.1. What are we doing when we are watching a film?2. How do we read a film?It is true...
Behind the Mask
Male fantasy
I am going to tell you about an event that took place in India in 2010.In December of that year I attended a seminar held by the...
Behind the Mask
Repetition, a pillar of psychoanalysis
At first glance, Death in an Antique Shop is an extension of Ashoka Handagama’s film Aksharaya. When parts of the film are showed...
Behind the Mask
How does art become universal?
How does art become universal? I believe that it is not so only by treating artistes as fetish. Then we have to question what is...
Behind the mask
Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
The beauty of a work of art is not a thing that is hidden from all its other aspects. An analysis of cinema seems to suggest that...
Behind the mask
Irony of hiding behind a mask
Fifteen years ago (the same column back in 2006) I wrote a column for the Daily News, the sister newspaper of The Sunday Observer...
Double reading Viragaya
Roland Barthe’s concept the ‘Death of the Author’ does not refer to a...
2021-10-02 18:30:00 0
Reading our inner desire through cinema
Continued from last week...Asoka Handagama is a prominent film maker...
2021-09-25 18:30:00 0
Mirror stage
We are going through a period called mirror stage and that is...
2021-09-18 19:30:00 0
Reimagining movie screen as a mirror
I begin this writing asking two questions.1. What are we doing when...
2021-09-11 18:30:00 0
Male fantasy
I am going to tell you about an event that took place in India in...
2021-09-04 18:30:00 0
Repetition, a pillar of psychoanalysis
At first glance, Death in an Antique Shop is an extension of Ashoka...
2021-08-21 18:30:00 0
How does art become universal?
How does art become universal? I believe that it is not so only by...
2021-07-31 18:30:00 0
Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
The beauty of a work of art is not a thing that is hidden from all...
2021-07-24 18:30:00 0
Irony of hiding behind a mask
Fifteen years ago (the same column back in 2006) I wrote a column for...
2021-07-17 18:30:00 0

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