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Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray on Cinema Book PDF

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231535472

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Satyajit Ray on Cinema by Satyajit Ray Pdf

Satyajit Ray, one of the greatest auteurs of twentieth century cinema, was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who set a new standard for Indian cinema with his Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) (1955), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) (1959). His work was admired for its humanism, versatility, attention to detail, and skilled use of music. He was also widely praised for his critical and intellectual writings, which mirror his filmmaking in their precision and wide-ranging grasp of history, culture, and aesthetics. Spanning forty years of Ray's career, these essays, for the first time collected in one volume, present the filmmaker's reflections on the art and craft of the cinematic medium and include his thoughts on sentimentalism, mass culture, silent films, the influence of the French New Wave, and the experience of being a successful director. Ray speaks on the difficulty of adapting literary works to screen, the nature of the modern film festival, and the phenomenal contributions of Jean-Luc Godard and the Indian actor, director, producer, and singer Uttam Kumar. The collection also features an excerpt from Ray's diaries and reproduces his sketches of famous film personalities, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Charlie Chaplin, and Akira Kurosawa, in addition to film posters, photographs by and of the artist, film stills, and a filmography. Altogether, the volume relays the full extent of Ray's engagement with film and offers extensive access to the thought of one of the twentieth-century's leading Indian intellectuals.

Satyajit Ray

Andrew Robinson
Satyajit Ray Book PDF

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845110749

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Satyajit Ray by Andrew Robinson Pdf

Satyajit Ray's work put India on the map of world cinema and led Akira Kurosawa to say of him: "Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon." Beginning with Pather Panchali, released fifty years ago this year, Ray won almost every major prize, including an Oscar for lifetime achievement. What makes him unparalleled in cinema is that he was personally responsible for all aspects of his films-from script to music. Published as a lavish album, the hundreds of illustrations in this book include drawings by Ray, film stills and photographs by Nemai Ghosh, who accompanied Ray and observed his work for nearly twenty-five years.

The Cinema of Satyajit Ray

Darius Cooper
The Cinema of Satyajit Ray Book PDF

Author : Darius Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0521629802

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The Cinema of Satyajit Ray by Darius Cooper Pdf

Satyajit Ray is India's greatest filmmaker and his importance in the international world of cinema has long been recognised. Darius Cooper's study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied work from a social and historical perspective, and to situate it within Indian aesthetics. Providing analyses of selected films, including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy, Chess Players, and Jalsaghhar, among others, 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 colonised', and his attack and critique of the Bengali/Indian middle class of today. 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.

Hyderabad, the Social Context of Industrialisation, 1875-1948

Si. Vi Subbārāvu
Hyderabad the Social Context of Industrialisation 1875 1948 Book PDF

Author : Si. Vi Subbārāvu
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8125015655

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Hyderabad, the Social Context of Industrialisation, 1875-1948 by Si. Vi Subbārāvu Pdf

This book brings together Satyajit Ray s major writings and talks on film makers, and presents them in two sections. Our Films is devoted mainly to his own experiences and contains many interesting anecdotes, but also has observations to offer on trends in Indian films. Their Films deals with some films abroad that have become landmarks in the history of cinema from the silent era to the present day and offers glimpses of great directors like Renoir, John Ford, Kurosawa and Charlie Chaplin, who are Ray s personal favourites.

My Years with Apu

Satyajit Ray
My Years with Apu Book PDF

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0140247807

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My Years with Apu by Satyajit Ray Pdf

The absorbing story of how one of the greatest directors of our time began his film-making career 'Ray's fascinating account of how he made the (Apu) trilogy and how his passion for cinema was first kindled.' -India Today 'Written in an impeccable style it brings back memories of an era when film-making was an art born out of a love for the medium and not merely a means to make money. -Sunday Mail 'My Years With Apu prompts wistful thoughts of those other books, the other Ray masterpieces that remained unwritten at the time of the director's death.' -Indian Review of Books 'A swift, detailed, precise narrative...the story and its many links still retain, as a powerful myth of artistic genesis, their freshness, and may have acquired a new significance with the passing of time.' -The Telegraph

Satyajit Ray

Andrew Robinson
Satyajit Ray Book PDF

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520069463

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Satyajit Ray by Andrew Robinson Pdf

Profiles the life of the Indian director, and discusses the making of each of his films

Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray Book PDF

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578069378

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Satyajit Ray by Satyajit Ray Pdf

Interviews with India's preeminent film director and creator of the Apu trilogy

Satyajit Ray: An Intimate Master

Santi Das
Satyajit Ray An Intimate Master Book PDF

Author : Santi Das
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788170237488

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Satyajit Ray: An Intimate Master by Santi Das Pdf

Satyajit Ray: An Intimate Master is an invaluable sourcework for studies in the work of Satyajit Ray and offers fascinating reading at the same time. Specially commissioned articles by experts and some of Ray's closest associates, relations and friends provide insights into the entire range of the creativity of Satyajit Ray, one of the world's greatest filmmakers—as artist and designer, writer, and filmmaker—and the environment that nurtured him. The contributions unravel features never before touched—upon all those subterranean elements that went into the making of his films and his artistic character. They should serve to open up new approaches to and possibilities for fresh readings of Ray's works in fiction, design and filmmaking alike. The 400-odd illustrations—several of them appearing in print for the first time—bring together a wide range of film stills, working stills, book illustrations, early drawings and sketches, layouts for advertisement insertions, film posters, brochures, portraits, caricatures, jacket designs, giving viewers a rare chance of studying the entirety of Ray's visual imagination and artistic craftsmanship. The memoiral, and analytical and critical pieces are supplemented by a comprehensive and thoroughly authenticated documentation, covering Ray's biography, a chronology of his films, filmography, synopses and cast/credits, awards and honours, his contributions to works by others, discography, bibliography, citations received on several occasions, the text of his earliest literary work, reproductions of his earliest artistic works, and portfolios on the making of Pather Panchali, his masterwork, and his involvement with Sandesh, the popular children's periodical launched by his grandfather that Ray revived in 1961, from a passionate concern for the enlightenment of children, a project that grew to be a passion of his in his last years. A selection of reviews of Ray’s films, national and international, arranged chronologically and filmwise offer a record of the world’s perception of and response to his films over four decades, in historical perspective. The volume as a whole, the product of several years’ research, has drawn on the rich collection of relevant documentary and archival material and memorabilia lying with the Ray family; and with the thoroughness that has gone into its documentation, it will be, for several years to come, the most authoritative and exhaustive and reliable work on Satyajit Ray.

Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray

Keya Ganguly
Cinema Emergence and the Films of Satyajit Ray Book PDF

Author : Keya Ganguly
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520946040

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Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray by Keya Ganguly Pdf

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.

Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory

Reena Dube
Satyajit Ray s The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory Book PDF

Author : Reena Dube
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230509665

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Satyajit Ray's The Chess Players and Postcolonial Film Theory by Reena Dube Pdf

Indispensable for students of film studies, in this book Reena Dube explores Satyajit Ray's films, and The Chess Players in particular, in the context of discourses of labour in colonial and postcolonial conditions. Starting from Daniel Defoe and moving through history, short story and film to the present, Dube widens her analysis with comparisons in which Indian films are situated alongside Hollywood and other films, and interweaves historical and cultural debates within film theory. Her book treats film as part of the larger cultural production of India and provides a historical sense of the cross genre borrowings, traditions and debates that have deeply influenced Indian cinema and its viewers.

Portrait of a Director

Marie Seton
Portrait of a Director Book PDF

Author : Marie Seton
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : 014302972X

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Portrait of a Director by Marie Seton Pdf

The Definitive Study Of The Life And Work Of India S Greatest Filmmaker Satyajit Ray Was India S First Filmmaker To Gain International Recognition As A Master Of The Medium, And Today He Continues To Be Regarded As One Of The World S Finest Directors Of All Time. His First Film Pather Panchali, Made When He Was In His Thirties, Catapulted Him Into The Forefront Of Young Directors Worldwide When In 1956 The Cannes Film Festival Honoured It As The Best Human Document Of The Year. Several Other Films By Ray, Like Aparajito, Jalsaghar, Charulata, Nayak, Aranyer Din Ratri, Shatranj Ke Khilari, Ghare Baire And Agantuk, Made Over A Career Spanning Five Decades, Are Considered Classics Of Contemporary Cinema. In 1992, Ray Was Awarded The Oscar For Lifetime Achievement By The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Science And, In The Same Year, Was Also Honoured With The Bharat Ratna. First Compared With Robert Flaherty For His Lyrical Use Of Nature And Locations, Ray Is Now Regarded As One Of The Great Neo-Realist Directors. From The Beginning He Rejected The Established Path Of Indian Film Production, Declaring At The Age Of Six: I Ll Go To Germany And Come Back And Make Films. He Absorbed A Remarkably Broad Culture From His Family Which Had Interesting Literary, Artistic And Musical Inclinations. With His Extraordinary Persistence And Capacity For Work, He Simultaneously Equipped Himself With Such Thoroughness That He Was Able To Create A Masterpiece In His Very First Film. Marie Seton S Classic Study Of Ray, The Product Of Thorough Research And A Long And Close Association With The Ray Family, Is The Most Detailed Examination Available Of Ray S Work As Musician, Scenarist And Director. First Published In 1971, It Was Last Updated In 1978, Some Fourteen Years Before Ray Passed Away. This New And Revised Edition Includes Unpublished Pieces From The Author S Further Writings On Ray, And An Afterword That Takes The Story Forward To Ray S Last Film. It Will, Hopefully, Re-Introduce The Genius Of Ray To A Whole New Generation Of Readers And Film Aficionados.

Childhood Days

Satyajit Ray
Childhood Days Book PDF

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789351180753

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Childhood Days by Satyajit Ray Pdf

Frank and funny, these stories written originally for the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh, are an essential read for all Ray enthusiasts as well as those who want to know Ray, the writer and film-maker, better. In this volume, Ray also shares some of his experiences while shooting Pather Panchali—his epic debut, and subsequent films, particularly for children. He describes how an entire field of kaash flowers was eaten up by cows before he could shoot his famous scene with the train in Pather Panchali; and how a circus tiger let loose in a bamboo grove chased away a group of curious onlookers in the blink of an eye.

My Adventures with Satyajit Ray

Suresh Jindal
My Adventures with Satyajit Ray Book PDF

Author : Suresh Jindal
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789352771035

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My Adventures with Satyajit Ray by Suresh Jindal Pdf

For those who know their Indian cinema, Shatranj Ke Khilari is film-maker Satyajit Ray's only feature film in Hindi/Urdu and also his most expensive film, employing lavish stage design and stars of both Mumbai and Western cinema. A period piece set in nineteenth-century Lucknow, capital of the state of Oudh, the film revolves around the court of the flamboyant artist-king Wajid Ali Shah against the backdrop of the East India Company's avaricious annexation of Oudh in 1856.Jindal, Ray's young and artistically committed producer of Shatranj Ke Khilari, looks back on the gripping story of how Ray came to direct the film despite his unequivocal declaration that he would never write and direct a film that was not in Bengali. Quoting extensively from Ray's fascinating unpublished letters to Jindal, it evokes the driving passion, original historical research and trademark devotion to detail that Ray brought to every aspect of the production.

The Best of Satyajit Ray 1

Satyajit Ray
The Best of Satyajit Ray 1 Book PDF

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354928727

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The Best of Satyajit Ray 1 by Satyajit Ray Pdf

Satyajit Ray (1921-1991), polymath, polyglot, novelist, short-story writer, illustrator, designer, music composer, was one of the most eminent film directors of world cinema. His Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road, 1955) established his position as a major film director, winning numerous awards. Recipient of the Lifetime Academy Award in 1992 'In recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures and for his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world', Ray took Indian cinema to a grand platform hitherto unachieved by any Indian film director. "Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means,' said Akira Kurosawa, 'existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.' While Ray's films are fairly well-known, his writings-fiction and non-fiction-written in Bengali and English continue to attract attention. His illustrations, design works, comic strips, science fictions, detective stories are gems of Indian literature. Ray's non-fictions are gems, which bring to lights his thoughts on film-making, film appreciation, composition of music, art, design and screenplay, among others. 'The Penguin Ray Library' is an endeavour to open a window to the master's writings to a wide spectrum of readers. From the ever-popular adventures of Ray's enduring creation, the professional sleuth Feluda to the chronicles of Professor Shonku; short stories; writings on filmmaking; and thoughts on world as well as Indian cinema, among others, this anthology, a two-volume boxset, The Best of Satyajit Ray is not only a treat for the Ray enthusiasts but also a collector's edition.

The Curse of the Goddess

Satyajit Ray
The Curse of the Goddess Book PDF

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789351185871

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The Curse of the Goddess by Satyajit Ray Pdf

An incident near the desolate Chhinnamasta temple on the rocky riverbank of Rajrappa leads to the death of Mahesh Chowdhury, the head of a Hazaribagh family. Adding to the mystery are a set of coded diaries, a valuable stamp collection that is missing and a tiger that is roaming the streets of Hazaribagh. One of Feluda’s most intriguing adventures, this shows the master sleuth at his best.