Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray, Keya Ganguly, Theater & Film

Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray

Keya Ganguly

2010, 248 Seiten, Masse: 15,3 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch

University of California

ISBN-10: 0520262174
ISBN-13: 9780520262171

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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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"What distinguishes Ganguly's book from the more fashionable approaches to non-Western cinema is her willingness to assert the importance of European theory¿specifically, writings on film by Eisenstein, Benjamin, Kracauer, Balázs, among others¿as a way to elaborate Satyajit Ray's contributions in the larger postwar context of an international New Wave cinema movement. She does this with extraordinary intelligence and finesse, and the result is an illuminating statement on how a cinema that seems ...

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Keya Ganguly is Professor of Cinema and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of States of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity.

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