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Satyajit Ray on Cinema by Satyajit Ray (editor); Sandip Ray (editor); Shyam Benegal (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Satyajit Ray on Cinema about?
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 f
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- Author
- Satyajit Ray (editor); Sandip Ray (editor); Shyam Benegal (editor)
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231164955
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Performing Arts, Memoir, Technology