In this Book
- Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Note on Romanization
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Conclusion: Lateness and Cinema
- pp. 197-216
- Select Bibliography
- pp. 241-252
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520946040
Related ISBN(s)
9780520262164
MARC Record
OCLC
649810666
Pages
274
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No