Cinema, emergence, and the films of Satyajit Ray / Keya Ganguly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ganguly, Keya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992--Criticism and interpretation.

Ray, Satyajit.

Motion picture producers and directors--India--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Romanization

Introduction: The Light of the New Moon

1. Catastrophe and Utopia

2. The (Un)moving Image

3. Devi

4. The Music Room Revisited

5. Take Two

6. Cinema and Universality

Conclusion

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612697739

9781282697737

1282697730

9780520946040

0520946049

OCLC:

649810666