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Although revered as one of the world’s great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely derived from European ideas. Rarely is he seen as an influential modernist in his own right whose contributions to world cinema remain unsurpassed. In this benchmark study, Keya Ganguly situates Ray’s work within the internationalist spirit of the twentieth century, arguing that his film experiments revive the category of political or "committed" art. She suggests that in their depictions of Indian life, Ray’s films intimate the sense of a radical future and document the capacity of the image to conceptualize a different world glimpsed in the remnants of a disappearing past.

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  1. Cover
  2. p. 1
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Note on Romanization
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Introduction: The Light of the New Moon
  2. pp. 1-31
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  1. 1. Catastrophe and Utopia: Ghare Baire, or the Household Goddess
  2. pp. 32-62
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  1. 2. The (Un)moving Image Visuality and the Modern in Charulata
  2. pp. 63-91
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  1. 3. Devi: Documenting the Decadent, Incarnating the Modern
  2. pp. 92-126
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  1. 4. The Music Room Revisited: Jalsaghar, Attraction, Perception
  2. pp. 127-152
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  1. 5. Take Two: Mahanagar and Cinematic Imperfection
  2. pp. 153-178
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  1. 6. Cinema and Universality: Apur Sansar as Critique
  2. pp. 179-196
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  1. Conclusion: Lateness and Cinema
  2. pp. 197-216
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 217-240
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  1. Select Bibliography
  2. pp. 241-252
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 253-258
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