Archive


Dr. Brigitte Schulze, e-mail: kerala@uni-trier.de
Universität Trier, Medienwissenschaft/ media studies
D-54286 Trier, Germany


Digital Archive Trier: ‘Endnote Database’


Visitors to this website section are provided with textual and content summaries

of the original data, audio- and audio-visual materials which are all kept at the

Digital Archive & Media Centre, Media Studies Department, Universität Trier / Trier University.

The Digital Archive & Media Centre at Trier University is generally accessible to scholars, social workers, or other concerned persons who are kindly requested to find out further details by e-mailing to:
kerala@uni-trier.de

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The research project founded by VolkswagenStiftung (www.volkswagenstiftung.de) was part of their focus:

Conceptualizations of 'Foreign' and 'Native': Processes of Intercultural Dissociation,                                               Mediation and Identity-Shaping

and was titled:

    Regionale Kino-Erfahrungen von ‘Weiblichkeit’ als Selbst-Reflexion kultureller     Identität in Kerala (Südindien). Perspektivenwechsel in der Theoriebildung über    Öffentlichkeit(en) und Identität(en)/Regional Cine-Experiences of 'Femininity' in                        Self-Reflections of Cultural Identity in Kerala. (Western)
                       Theories of the Public Sphere(s) and Identities Revisited

its working title was: Self-images of women and cinema in Kerala ...

Period of the project: March 1, 2001 – December 31, 2003

Main period of feeding the database: April 2001 – June 2003


Sources and Organisation of data:
press, print, audio- and av-media from the dominant spheres of representation in Kerala

The bibliographical organisation of all data – including the audio-, and audio-visual materials, and its different media of storage (analogue or digital tapes, audio- or video-CDs, etc.) was done with the bibliographical software ‘Endnote’, and here it is accessible under “references”:

the database contains ca. 3,200 “references”:
the surveyed Malayalam and English newspaper and magazine articles, books, manuscripts, etc. were thus evaluated, and are kept ready to read in digital, or in 1:1 xerox copy, or in original paper format. The latter are kept in files in our ‘Paper & Print’ section.
The AV-Section of our archive keeps audio-CDs (music and inter-views), and audiovisual material saved on different media like DV-Cam cassettes (with the documentary footage by B. Schulze, C. Saratchandran, and others) Video-CDs with commercial cinema films, VHS-Video tapes, hypertexts etc.;

2,454 “references” to newspaper articles from the daily Indian English newspaper The Hindu form the major part of the press material. The newspaper has been read and evaluated systematically between October 2001 and June 2003; articles from this period form the main corpus of our newspaper references; there are also some articles from the time before October 2001;

1,352 of the The Hindu articles are taken from the newspaper’s online version and are 1:1 digitally reproduced and evaluated here. Under www.hindu.com readers are provided with an extensive archive (see its website under “archive/ datewise”) covering the years 2000 to 2004.

For 1,693 of selected paper and digital articles, our database provides abstracts, e.g. the most important paragraphs of the articles, ready for quotation.

Another 334 press “references” from the time between October 2001 and March 2003 were created from the paper version of the Indian English newspaper The New Indian Express.


•    The database entries and evaluation include keywords# corresponding to our ‘inter-facing’        philosophy:

ca. 120 keywords in this database give you broad ideas about important topics of our research, results and the archival stock, and can thus be used effectively to search for texts, inter-views, voices, views, and the diverse print, audio and audiovisual material covering similar topics. Any one reference may have one keyword or a combination of several keywords (for a complete keyword list, see below).

Our Media Centre section provides tables of content summaries (CContent_DV_* ) of the DV-Cam cassettes, and the last column relates the av-material thematically to the main strands of argumentation and theorisation through ‘inter-facing’.

‘Keywords’ and ‘inter-facing’ ...

Our understanding and perspective on the marginalised creative energies/ srishti necessitate appropriate ‘tools’ of communication to evenly re-present and positively re-enforce these energies.
Because of this we chose terms/ units which – as we hope – have the potential to reflect and resound in our ‘readers’ our conviction that the marginalised srishti’s philosophy is one which communicates to all human senses and sensitivities, that its essential characteristics are mutuality, dialogue, symbiosis, and that it is about touching and being touched, of deeper emotional echoes, and of a respectful and humorous way of dealing with the fellow beings living in societies and in the wider nature.

Inter-Facing thus relates to our ‘mobilised’ phenomenological approach and documents the neglected marginalised subjective perspectives by means of our participatory action research, and then relates these in a discursive, reflective and dynamic manner to other perspectives of other communicators (eg. press, cinema).
As part of the Content Protocols of our AV-Materials which can be accessed in the ‘Media Centre’ the last column ‘inter-facing’ provides the reader with an informed comment connecting the views, voices etc. in the films to other views, voices, to issues of the marginal and the mainstream which in the course of the project were negotiated, reflected and condensed into our ‘keywords’:

Endnote Database Keyword List (finalised in June 2003)

 "Good women" in Kerala  11.09.2001
 Actors in India  Actresses in India
 Adivasi  Agriculture
 Bawandar  Bollywood
 C.K. Janu  Caste
 Children  Cinema and Media General
 Comradeship and Oneness  Corruption
 Culture  Dalit Literature
 Dalits  Dalits in Kerala
 Dancing  Deadivasi
 Devis in Kerala  Education
 Emotion  Environment Issues
 Ethnics  Family
 Female Foeticide  Feminism
 Film Director  Film Distribution
 Film Distribution India  Film Distribution Kerala
 Film Exhibition Kerala  Film Festival
 Film Production India  Film Production Kerala
 Film Reception India  Film Reception Kerala
 Filmmaker  Gender Identities
 Gender Studies  Globalisation
 Hindutva  Hollywood
 Human Rights  Indian History
 Indian Thinking  International Film Festival of Kerala
 International Politics  Kamala Das
 Kamala Suraya  Kerala Culture
 Kootiyattam  Lagaan
 Lajja  Life-Love-Visions
 Literacy  Literature
 Love  Mahatma Gandhi
 Malayalam Cinema  Malayalam Literature
 Malayalam Sinima  Malayalam Theatre
 Mankolangal  Marriage
 Media  Media and Politics
 Medical Issues  Mercy Ravi
 Middel Classes in Kerala  Modernization
 Morality  Muslims
 Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka  National Identity
 Networking EU  Networking International
 Onam  Onam 2001 Cinema
 P.E. Usha  Police
 Politics and Economics India  Politics and Economics Kerala
 Poverty  Prostitution
 Purdah  Rakshasarajavu
 Ramayana  Ravanaprabhu
 Religion  Sara Joseph
 Sarasu Thomas  Sarafarosh
 Self and Modern Individual  Sexual Violence
 Sexuality  Shanti
 Solidarity  Sonia Gandhi
 Strike Kerala State Employees 2002  Suicide
 Suicide in Kerala  Tagore
 Temples in Kerala  Theatre
 Unions  Violence
 Water  Women and Arts
 Women and Cinema  Women and Music
 Women and Violence in India  Women in India
 Women in Kerala  Women Writers India
 Women Writers Kerala  Women´s Issues
 Women´s Rights  Working Class Kerala
 Yakshi  

 


•     Some of the data are organised in “files” (some of which are still updated in the course of        
2004):these are compilations of diverse print material (newspaper articles,clippings,brochures,        personal notes etc.) on topics of particular importance to our research and networking        (for a complete list of these files, see below).

“Files”:

"File: 6th International Film Festival of Kerala" 2001

"File: 7th International Film Festival of Kerala" 2003

"File: Berlin - Voices of Resistance" 2003

"File: Evangelische Akademie Bad Boll: Dalit Solidarity" 2003

"File: Gujarat" 2002

"File: Kanavu" 2000-2003

"File: Kerala Facts and Figures"

"File: Kerala Power" 1998-2003

"File: Malayalam Cinema"

"File: Muthanga" 2003

"File: Networking" 2004 ff.

"File: Sex Workers' Conference" 2003

Schulze, Brigitte - "File: Kerala Culture and Cinema" 1999
---. "File: Women's studies and Feminist Politics, Netherlands" 2003
---. "File: Workshop 'Female Nomads in Film Culture' in Bombay" 2000

Society, Dalit Women. "File: Dalit Women Society" 1988-2002


   CDs, VHS- and DV-Cam cassettes with our self-created (research) documentary footage/films,      and audio CDs with music or interview material, and of commercial origin:

Film CDs

Abraham, John. Amma Ariyan [A Report to Mother]. Film CD, 1986.

Anthikkad, Sathyan. Narendran Makan Jayakantham Vaka. Film CD.

Baaskaran, P., and Ramu Kariat. Neelakkuyil. Film CD, 1954.

Film and Female (I). A Reportage of the Documentary Film Workshop for Women, 2003. Film CD, 2003.
Film and Female (II). 1. A Voyage. 2. Paulin. Film CD, 2003.
Film and Female (III). 3. A Hidden Castle, 2003
4. ?. 5. Manishada, 2003
. Film CD, 2003.

Hariharan. Olu Vadakkan Veeragaatha. Film CD, 1989.

Hyperlinks gegen Rechts, Jugendliche vernetzen sich gegen Rechtsextremismus und Intoleranz, Gallus Zentrum Frankfurt a. Main etc., 2003.

Josson, Suma. Gujarat: A Laboratory. Film CD, 2003.

Kailas, Shaji. The King. Film CD, 1995.

---. Narasimham. Film CD.

Kariat, Ramu. Chemeen [The Wrath of the Sea]/ The Shrimp'. Film CD, 1965.

Saratchandran, C. "The bitter drink." Ed. C. Saratchandran, 2003.
---. Kanavu (The Dream). AV CD, 2001.
---. Kanavu (The Dream)
---Chaliyar (The Final Struggle). AV CD, 2001.

Schulze, Brigitte. "The Bitter Drink"; "Evicted from Justice". Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit and Adivasi Women, Workshop IIB. Rec 13.-15.03. Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit and Adivasi Women, Workshop IIB. Rec 13.-15.03. Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit and Adivasi Women, Workshop IIB. Rec 13.-15.03. Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit and Adivasi Women, Workshop IIB. Rec 13.-15.03. Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit Women Meeting [preparing their own films] Film CD, 2002.
---. Dalit Women Meeting ... Film CD, 2002.
---. Dalit Women Meeting ...; Ente Lokam/ ‘My world’ Shootings on location. Film CD, 2002.
---. Dalit Women, C. Saratchandran and concerned women students, Workshop IIA. Rec 08.08. Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit Women etc ... Workshop IIA. Rec 08.08. Film CD, 2003.
---. Dalit Women etc. ...Workshop IIA. Rec 08.08. Film CD, 2003.
---. E. Kutumbam/'E.'s Family'; Ente Swapnangal/ 'My dreams'; S. & Sh. Swapnangal/ 'S.'s & Sh.'s dreams'; Ite Nangalude Lokam/ 'This is our world'; Anukamba/ 'Compassion'. Film CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam (My World). AV CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam (My World). AV CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam (My World). AV CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam (My World). AV CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam Shootings on Dalit women’s location. Film CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam Shootings on Dalit women’s location. Film CD, 2002.
---. Ente Lokam (EL) Shootings on Dalit women’s location; meeting by M. women at their village –
EL preparations.
Film CD, 2002.
---. Ita ... Streekalude Oru Swayam ./ 'See, a Women's Self Help Group ...; L. Lokam/ 'L.'s World'; Va. Lokam/ 'Va.'s World'; Sa. Lokam/ 'Sa.'s World'; V. Lokam/ 'V.'s World'. Film CD, 2002.
---. KUDIYIRAKKAPPEDUNNAVAR/ DISPLACED PEOPLE; Inter-view between one of the Dalit women makers of KUDIYIRAKKAPPEDUNAVAR ... and B. Schulze on ‘sinima’ and Muthanga. Film CD, 2003.
---. "Planning the film" KUDIYIRAKKAPPEDUNNAVAR/ DISPLACED PEOPLE. Film CD, 2003.
---. Schulze and Dalit women share ideas before making their Ente Lokam-films; Nangalude Kutumbam/ 'Our family'; M. Vischamatakal/ ‘M.’s worries’; A. lokam/ 'A.'s World'. Film CD, 2001/2002.
---. Talk after workshop I between Suma Josson (interview) and B. Schulze, Film CD, 2002.
---. With Thornwings Under Their Feet -Towards the Light. Reflections on Women and Cinema in Kerala, 1999-2002, Part 1. Film CD, 1999-2002.
---. With Thornwings Under Their Feet -Towards the Light. Reflections on Women and Cinema in Kerala, 1999-2002, Part 2. Film CD, 1999-2002.
---. With Thornwings Under Their Feet -Towards the Light. Reflections on Women and Cinema in Kerala, 1999-2002, Part 3. Film CD, 1999-2002.
---. Workshop I Dalit and M. Women. Film CD, 2002.
---. Workshop I Dalit and M. Women. Film CD, 2002.
---. Workshop I Dalit and M. Women. Film CD, 2002.
---. Workshop I Dalit and M. Women. Film CD, 2002.

Shyamaprasad. Agni Sakshi [With Fire As Witness]. Film CD, 1999.

Transit Rostock Frankfurt. Projekt der Jugend-Kultur-Werkstatt Falkenheim Gallus e.V., 2003.

Women, Dalit. KUDIYIRAKKAPPEDUNAVAR/ DISPLACED PEOPLE, AV CD, 2003.


VHS Cassettes

Balan, P. Aanpoove [Male Flower]. VHS, 1995.

Josson, Suma. Saree. VHS, 2001.

Sasi, K.P. Ilayum Mullum [Leaves and Thorns]. VHS, 1994.

Schulze, Brigitte. With Thornwings Under Their Feet - Towards the Light. Reflections on Women and Cinema in Kerala. VHS, 1999-2002.
---. With Thornwings Under Their Feet - Towards the Light. Reflections on Women and Cinema in Kerala. SVHS, 1999-2002.


Audio-CDs (self produced, produced by befriended individuals/ groups, and commercial)

Adivasi. Kanavu: selected songs and AMMAYUM NANMAYUM by adivasi women. Audio CD, 2003.

Ammayum Nanmayum. Audio CD, 2001.

Schulze, Brigitte. Interview Brigitte Schulze with P.E. Usha. Rec 23.01. Audio CD, 2003.
---. Interview Brigitte Schulze with P.E. Usha. Rec 23.01. Audio CD, 2003.
---. Interview Brigitte Schulze with P.E. Usha. Rec 23.01. Audio CD, 2003.
---. Interview Brigitte Schulze with P.E. Usha. Rec 23.01. Audio CD, 2003.
---. Interview Brigitte Schulze with Reshma on P.E. Usha. Rec 05.05. Audio CD, 2001.
---. Interview Leela Menon. Audio CD, 2001.
---. Interviews with women of SAHAJA. Audio CD, 2001.

Songs of Kanavu. A tribal school in the forests of Wayanad, India. Audio CD, 2001.

Talk of Robin Jeffrey at Ernakulam*. Audio CD, 2003.
--- (continued) talk of Robin Jeffrey, Medha Patkar’s talk before the students at M.G. University*. Audio CD, 2003.

Wayanad Convention. Audio CD, Kozhikode, 2003.

Adivasi Women. Songs. Audio CD, 2003.
---. Songs. Audio CD, 2003.


DV-Cam List : DV_I to DV_XVIII
can be found in the ‘Media Centre’