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OverviewSatyajit Ray's very first film, Pather Panchali, established him as a leading presence in Indian cinema, and fifty years later he is still a major icon for filmmakers, viewers and scholars. This collection takes a fresh look at the major films of Ray. Scholars from film studies, literary studies and the social sciences read the director's work in the light of the recent research on Indian cinema and culture. The essays try to put the project of Ray's realist practice in perspective, study the career of cinematic modernism through his rich and complex body of work and also use his films to reflect on the cultural and social processes from which they emerged. They move from close readings of individual films to the investigation of larger thematic and stylistic concerns, study the representational and narrative traditions that Ray drew upon, and the specific character that film as an artistic practice took on in his work. This collection, arriving on the fiftieth anniversary of Pather Panchali, is one of the first to address Ray's work through the prism of contemporary critical theory. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Moniak BiswasPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.512kg ISBN: 9781905422265ISBN 10: 1905422261 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 01 June 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of stock  Table of Contents* Introduction: Critical Returns, Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University* Develop-mentalist Turn: Recovering Ray's Panchali, Sourin Bhattacharya, formerly of Jadavpur University* Early Films: The Novel and Other Horizons, Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University* Nationhood, Authenticity and Realism in Indian Cinema: The Double-Take of Modernism in the Work of Satyajit Ray, Ravi Vasudevan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi* Ray's Musical Narratives: Studying the screenplay of Kanchenjungha, Suman Ghosh, Jadavpur University* Conditions of Visibility: People's Imagination and Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Mihir Bhattacharya, formerly of Jadavpur University* Ray's Memory Game, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta* In the City, Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University* Meaning in the Middle: Dialogue and Word in Jana Aranya, Swapan Chakravorty, Jadavpur University* Those Who Work, Ujjal Chakraborty, Roopkala Kendro, CalcuttaReviewsAuthor InformationMoinak Biswas teaches film studies at Jadavpur University and has been widely published in both English and Bengali on contemporary Indian cinema. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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