The Apu trilogy / Robin Wood ; edited by Barry Keith Grant ; preface by Richard Lippe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Robin, 1931-2009, author.

Contributor:

Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- editor.

Lippe, Richard , 1941- writer of foreword.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series.

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pathera pān̐cālī (Motion picture).

Aparājita (Motion picture).

Apura saṃsāra (Motion picture).

Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992. Apu trilogy.

Ray, Satyajit.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The Apu Trilogy is the fifth book written by influential film critic Robin Wood and republished for a contemporary audience. Focusing on the famed trilogy from Indian director Satyajit Ray, Wood persuasively demonstrates his ability at detailed textual analysis, providing an impressively sustained reading that elucidates the complex view of life in the trilogy. Wood was one of our most insightful and committed film critics, championing films that explore the human condition. His analysis of The Apu Trilogy reveals and illuminates the films' profoundly humanistic qualities with clarity and rigor, plumbing the psychological and emotional resonances that arise from Ray's delicate balance of performance, camerawork, and visual design. Wood was the first English-language critic to write substantively about Ray's films, which made the original publication of his monograph on The Apu Trilogy unprecedented as well as impressive. Of late there has been a renewed interest in North America in the work of Satyajit Ray, yet no other critic has come close to equaling the scope and depth of his analysis. In his introduction, originally published in 1971, Wood says reactions to Ray's work were met with indifference. In response, he offers possible reasons why this occurred, including social and cultural differences and the films' slow pacing, which contemporary critics tended to associate with classical cinema. Wood notes Ray's admiration for Western film culture, including the Hollywood cinema and European directors, particularly Jean Renoir and his realist films. Assigning a chapter to each Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito, (1957), and The World of Apu, (1959), Wood goes on to explore each film more thoroughly. One of the aspects of this book that is particularly rewarding is Wood's analytical approach to the trilogy as a whole, as well as detailed attention

given to each of the three films. The book, with a new preface by Richard Lippe and foreword by Barry Keith Grant, functions as a master class on what constitutes an in-depth reading of a work and the use of critical tools that are relevant to such a task. Robin Wood's The Apu Trilogy offers an excellent account of evaluative criticism that will appeal to film scholars and students alike.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Pather Panchali

Aparajito

The World of Apu

Notes

Filmography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (page 127), filmography (pages 129-144), and index.

ISBN:

9780814342268

0814342264

OCLC:

967552938