Satyajit Ray on Cinema / Satyajit Ray; Sandip Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, Satyajit, author.

Contributor:

Benegal, Shyam, 1934-2024.

Ray, Sandip, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--India.

Motion pictures.

Ray, Satyajit.

Local Subjects:

Motion picture producers and directors--India.

Motion pictures.

Ray, Satyajit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959). His work was admired for its humanism, versatility, attention to detail, and skilled use of music. He was also widely praised for his critical and intellectual writings, which mirror his filmmaking in their precision and wide-ranging grasp of history, culture, and aesthetics. Spanning forty years of Ray's career, these essays, for the first time collected in one volume, present the filmmaker's reflections on the art and craft of the cinematic medium and include his thoughts on sentimentalism, mass culture, silent films, the influence of the French New Wave, and the experience of being a successful director. Ray speaks on the difficulty of adapting literary works to screen, the nature of the modern film festival, and the phenomenal contributions of Jean-Luc Godard and the Indian actor, director, producer, and singer Uttam Kumar. The collection also features an excerpt from Ray's diaries and reproduces his sketches of famous film personalities, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Akira Kurosawa, in addition to film posters, photographs by and of the artist, film stills, and a filmography. Altogether, the volume relays the full extent of Ray's engagement with film and offers extensive access to the thought of one of the twentieth-century's leading Indian intellectuals.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Foreword

Part One. The Film-Maker'S Craft

1. National Styles in Cinema

2. Notes on Filming Bibhuti Bhusan

3. Should a Film-Maker Be Original?

4. This Word 'Technique'

5. All These Devices

6. The Changing Face of Films

7. The Question of Reality

8. The Confronting Question

9. A Film Must Achieve its Objective

10. Thoughts on the Camera

11. 'I Wish I Could Have Shown Them To You'

12. The New Cinema and I

13. Under Western Eyes

14. The Art of Silence

Part Two. Pen Portraits

15. A Word About Godard

16. The New Antonioni

17. The Nayak

18. 'Never Use Animals'

19. The Immortal Tramp

Part Three. Celebrating Cinema

20. Arrival in Moscow

21. Film Festivals

22. Our Festivals, Their Festivals

Filmography

Satyajit Ray'S Contributions to Films Other than His Own

Awards Won by Satyajit Ray

Index

Preserving a Legacy

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231535472

0231535473

OCLC:

979573847