Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films
This book is dedicated to aspects of Satyajit Ray’s films and their portrayal of women. Ray was an auteur, a filmmaker with a personal vision to offer, and on the strength of his film Pather Panchali, became a leading filmmaker of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s. It is notable that in various nations...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Univ.
2022
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Nidān
Year: 2022, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-117 |
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| Summary: | This book is dedicated to aspects of Satyajit Ray’s films and their portrayal of women. Ray was an auteur, a filmmaker with a personal vision to offer, and on the strength of his film Pather Panchali, became a leading filmmaker of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s. It is notable that in various nations around the world with a colonial legacy, there arose a group of individual auteurs at the time, who were usually members of the post-colonial elite. They tried to create their own national cinema based on the Hollywood model in what could be described as ‘realist’ genres that explored social and domestic life hitherto unexplored in Western cinema, Third World. Filmmakers of this group like Ray, who often acknowledged the influence of Italian Neo-realism on their cinematic productions, also included stalwart film-makers like Fernando Birri from Brazil, Leopoldo Torre Nillson from Argentina, Tomas Alea and Humberto Solas from Cuba, Antonio Eugenio from Bolivia, Youssef Chahine from Egypt and Lester Peries from Ceylon (later Sri Lanka). Their cinematic productions have by and large, received utmost respect, partly because their works strongly opposed the ‘mindless escapism’ of contemporary Third World commercial cinema and could moreover, be judged by aesthetic standards familiar to the West (Armes 1987: 85). |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2022.2 |