| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 307 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Art cinema : the Indian career of a global category -- The "new" Indian cinema : journeys of the art film -- Debating radical cinema : film societies and art cinema -- Ritwik Ghatak and the overcoming of history -- "Anger and After" : Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy -- An untimely filmmaker : the crisis of historicism in Satyajit Ray's city trilogy -- Epilogue: Art cinema and our present |
| Summary |
"In the years following Indian independence in 1947, art cinema was seen as central to the development and future of the new nation. Filmmakers like Satyajit Ray came to the fore as did a host of film societies and publications aimed at promoting a new kind of film culture that would offer a distinct alternative to the popular movies coming out of Bombay. Indian art film would not only bring the new nation international prestige but would create responsible and discerning individuals capable of exercising and combining aesthetic and political judgments. Good films, it was believed, could produce good citizens. However, as Rochona Majumdar argues, the liberal faith of progress championed by Indian elites in the 1950s and early 1960s would soon unravel as the promises of postcolonial development, justice, and prosperity receded, giving rise to civil unrest and political violence. Rather than promoting a progressive view of history, the three leading Indian filmmakers of the period - Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, and Satyajit Ray -- communicated a sense of a postcolonial present characterized by multiple contradictory possibilities. Ray, Sen, and Ghatak's disillusionment from their prior commitment to filmmaking as integral to the development of India anticipated a new way of conceiving ideas of postcolonial history and time that anticipated later works by historians and theorists. Ultimately, these three filmmakers stand out for acknowledging that the postcolonial consensus was in disarray, and with it art cinema's previous certainty about its pedagogic, political, and historic purpose"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2021) |
| Subject |
Ghatak, Ritwikkumar, 1925-1976.
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Sen, Mrinal, 1923-2018.
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Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992.
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Ghatak, Ritwikkumar, 1925-1976 fast |
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Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992 fast |
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Sen, Mrinal, 1923-2018 fast |
| Subject |
New wave films -- India -- History and criticism
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Postcolonialism in motion pictures.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- India
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Motion pictures -- India -- History -- 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Motion pictures
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New wave films
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Postcolonialism in motion pictures
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India
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021002488 |
| ISBN |
9780231553902 |
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0231553900 |
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