Synopses & Reviews
The most comprehensive treatment of Satyajit 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 Jalsaghar, 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.
Synopsis
Darius Cooper's study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied work from a social and historical perspective. The most comprehensive treatment of 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.
Description
Filmography: p. 249-254. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-248) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Between wonder, intuition and suggestion: Rasa in Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy and Jalsaghar; 2. From gazes to threat: the Odyssian Yatra; Journey of the Ray woma(e)n; 3. The male responses, trauma and subjectivity of the Ray Purush; Men; 4. Satyajit Ray's political version of the doubly colonised; 5. From newly discovered 'Margins': Ray's responses to the 'center'.