The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity

Darius Cooper

Cambridge University Press, Jan 13, 2000 - Performing Arts - 260 pages

The most comprehensive treatment of Satayjit Ray's work, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray makes accessible the oeuvre of one of the most prolific and creative filmmakers of the twentieth century. Providing analyses of selected films, including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy, Chess Players, and Jalsaghhar, among others, Darius Cooper outlines Western influences on Ray's work, such as the plight of women functioning within a patriarchal society, Ray's political vision of the "doubly colonized", and his attack and critique of the Bengali/ Indian middle class of today.

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The powerhouse Indian film industry passes unnoticed outside of the subcontinent, and, for the most part, so does the work of its master filmmakers. It has been over a decade since the publication of ...

Contents

• IV: 15
• V: 24
• VI: 26
• VII: 40
• VIII: 50
• IX: 64
• X: 72
• XI: 75
• XII: 79
• XIII: 96
• XIV: 102
• XV: 106
• XVI: 108
• XVII: 118
• XVIII: 122
• XIX: 127
• XX: 132
• XXI: 134
• XXII: 143
• XXIII: 147
• XXIV: 152
• XXV: 157
• XXVI: 162
• XXVII: 175
• XXVIII: 177
• XXIX: 178
• XXX: 184
• XXXI: 189
• XXXII: 210
• XXXIII: 213
• XXXIV: 215
• XXXV: 219
• XXXVI: 225
• XXXVII: 231
• XXXVIII: 234
• XXXIX: 235
• XL: 245
• XLI: 249
• XLII: 255

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cinema of Satyajit Ray: Between Tradition and Modernity; Cambridge Studies in Film
• Author: Darius Cooper
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0521629802, 9780521629805
• Length: 260 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Film & Video / Direction & Production; Performing Arts / Film & Video / General; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Media Studies