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Arya Aiyappan is an Associate Professor at the
English and Cultural Studies Department, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India. Her prime focus is Cinemas in India, specifically Middle cinema in Malayalam. Through research and teaching, she explores the politics of film representations, gender paradigms, genre grading, stardom, offscreen-onscreen dynamics, film culture and the interlinking of Blue Humanities. She co-authored the book Reading Cinema: Theories and Techniques (2017) and has published several articles in reputed journals. Arya has completed a monograph on the Malayalam filmmaker P Padmarajan with the National Film Archives of India, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Pune.