Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai is an associate professor in the English, and Media and Information Departments at Michigan State University. He is a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India and the University of Iowa. He is an accomplished filmmaker, and his recent documentaries include Migrations of Islam (2014) and Hmong Memory at the Crossroads (2015). His research focuses on the history, theory, and production of documentaries, and the specificity of Tamil cinema, and its complex relationship with Hollywood as well as popular Hindi films. His recent books are Cinema: Sattagamum Saalaramum (Nizhal, 2013), an anthology of essays on documentaries and experimental films in Tamil and Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology in Tamil Cinema (Sage Publications, 2015) - CEJSH

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Dr. Swarnavel Eswaran Pillai is an associate professor in the English, and Media and Information Departments at Michigan State University. He is a graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India and the University of Iowa. He is an accomplished filmmaker, and his recent documentaries include Migrations of Islam (2014) and Hmong Memory at the Crossroads (2015). His research focuses on the history, theory, and production of documentaries, and the specificity of Tamil cinema, and its complex relationship with Hollywood as well as popular Hindi films. His recent books are Cinema: Sattagamum Saalaramum (Nizhal, 2013), an anthology of essays on documentaries and experimental films in Tamil and Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology in Tamil Cinema (Sage Publications, 2015)

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