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Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was India's preeminent filmmaker, as well as a major figure in world cinema. He made more than thirty films and was awarded the Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 1992. A truly cosmopolitan artist, he combined elements from his own culture with those of the West, creating a unique synthesis. While his films are deeply culture-specific, they are also profoundly universal. <p>Ray's major work focuses on India as a new emerging nation, filtered through the experiences of men and women who seek to define themselves in relation to the larger forces of change. These forces manifest themselves through conflicts between the feudal and the modern, tradition and progress, the village and the city, the old and the new. Through his understated, poetic narratives, Ray shows how such conflicts shape new forms of identity within an evolving society.</p> <p>A study of modernity in the work of Satyajit Ray, Suranjan Ganguly's book examines six major films in depth, focusing on such issues as the nature of human subjectivity, the importance of education, the emancipation of women, the rise of the new middle class, and the crisis of identity in post-independence India. Ganguly

Author
Ganguly, Suranjan
Publisher
Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9780810859005
Subjects
Sports, Literary Fiction, Humanities

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