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Satyajit Ray on Cinema

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231535473
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Satyajit Ray on Cinema written by Satyajit Ray and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520069466
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Satyajit Ray written by Andrew Robinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life of the Indian director, and discusses the making of each of his films

My Years with Apu

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780140247800
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book My Years with Apu written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Mountain of the Moon

Author : Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
Publisher : Niyogi Books
ISBN 13 : 9389136385
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book The Mountain of the Moon written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain of the moon is a story about taking a chance dare which, with its wings of imagination, leads you to the silver lining after a storm. Shankar, an ordinary young boy from rural India, crosses many skies and seas to explore an altogether different world—africa. There, he joins a seasoned Portuguese Explorer, Diego alvarez on a daring mission. But is the destination worth the toil of the journey? Moreover, will Shankar get to the peak of his mountain of dreams? The Storyline, with a series of adventures, is a testimony to the eternal virtues of courage, curiosity and compassion. It gradually becomes a tantalizing tale of an unusual friendship that evolved in the spectacular but dangerous African forests and grasslands teeming with mysterious wildlife, people and their folklores. Experience this classic adventurous narrative in English that will lead you again to an era of picaro, when one dared to dream. This book has also been adapted into a popular Bengali movie.

Manik Da

Author : Nemai Ghosh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9350299534
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Manik Da written by Nemai Ghosh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray, known to his intimates as Manik-da, remains India's most respected name in international film circles. This book reveals in its simplicity the ease and camaraderie between Satyajit Ray, one of India's finest film-makers, and Nemai Ghosh, photographer extraordinaire. Manik-da is the latter's endeavour to depict the man behind the director's mask. Ghosh first worked with Ray on Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, and Ray immediately found in him a kindred spirit who intuitively understood his requirements - and whom he understood. Thus was formed a partnership that spanned over a quarter of a century. In the process, Ghosh was able to photograph Ray at work and play, capturing on film the many moods of the master director. This nuanced and lucid translation from the Bengali original, which includes a perceptive Foreword by Sharmila Tagore, presents to the English reader Ghosh's thoughts on Ray with over fifty exquisite, never-before-seen photographs.

Speaking of Films

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780144000265
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Films written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents India's greatest film-maker on the art and craft of films. Speaking of Films brings together some of Ray's most memorable writings on film and film-making. With the masterly precision and clarity that characterize his films, Ray discusses a wide array of subjects: the structure and language of cinema with special reference to his adaptations of Tagore and Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay, the appropriate use of background music and dialogue in films, the relationship between a film-maker and a film critic, and important developments in cinema like the advent of sound and colour. He also writes about his own experiences, the challenges of working with rank amateurs, and the innovations called for when making a film in the face of technological, financial and logistical constraints. In the process, Ray provides fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses of the people who worked with him - the intricacies of getting Chhabi Biswas, who had no ear for music, to play a patron of classical music in Jalsaghar, the incredible memory of the seventy-five-year-old Chunibala Devi, Indir Thakrun of Pather Panchali, and her remarkable attention to details.

Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray

Author : Keya Ganguly
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520262166
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray written by Keya Ganguly and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a deeply researched, theoretically sophisticated and organic study. Keya Ganguly's intellectual tour de force in this analysis of the great Indian film maker Satyajit Ray will provide a benchmark for future studies of the subject."--Partha Mitter, author of The Triumph of Modernism: Indian Artists and the Avant-Garde 1922-1947 "What distinguishes Ganguly's book from the more fashionable approaches to non-Western cinema is her willingness to assert the importance of European theory--specifically, writings on film by Eisenstein, Benjamin, Kracauer, Balázs, among others--as a way to elaborate Satyajit Ray's contributions in the larger postwar context of an international New Wave cinema movement. She does this with extraordinary intelligence and finesse, and the result is an illuminating statement on how a cinema that seems nostalgic for a disappearing cultural past can in fact be read, for the first time perhaps, for its intimations of an as-yet unrealized futurity."--Rey Chow, author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films

Childhood Days

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351180751
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Childhood Days written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Looking Beyond

Author : Jayanti Sen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788174365651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (656 download)

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Download or read book Looking Beyond written by Jayanti Sen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the immense body of work that constitutes renowned Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's graphic designs. A consummate artist from his early years, Ray designed more than 5500 book covers, posters, ad layouts, and film titles.

Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures

Author : Rochona Majumdar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553900
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures written by Rochona Majumdar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-Winner, 2023 Chidananda Dasgupta Award for the Best Writing on Cinema, Chidananda Dasgupta Memorial Trust Shortlisted, 2022 MSA Book Prize, Modernist Studies Association Longlisted, 2022 Moving Image Book Award, Kraszna-Krausz Foundation The project of Indian art cinema began in the years following independence in 1947, at once evoking the global reach of the term “art film” and speaking to the aspirations of the new nation-state. In this pioneering book, Rochona Majumdar examines key works of Indian art cinema to demonstrate how film emerged as a mode of doing history and that, in so doing, it anticipated some of the most influential insights of postcolonial thought. Majumdar details how filmmakers as well as a host of film societies and publications sought to foster a new cinematic culture for the new nation, fueled by enthusiasm for a future of progress and development. Good films would help make good citizens: art cinema would not only earn global prestige but also shape discerning individuals capable of exercising aesthetic and political judgment. During the 1960s, however, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak—the leading figures of Indian art cinema—became disillusioned with the belief that film was integral to national development. Instead, Majumdar contends, their works captured the unresolvable contradictions of the postcolonial present, which pointed toward possible, yet unrealized futures. Analyzing the films of Ray, Sen, and Ghatak, and working through previously unexplored archives of film society publications, Majumdar offers a radical reinterpretation of Indian film history. Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures offers sweeping new insights into film’s relationship with the postcolonial condition and its role in decolonial imaginations of the future.

The Best of Satyajit Ray 1

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9354928722
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book The Best of Satyajit Ray 1 written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-02-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Satyajit Ray

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578069378
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Satyajit Ray written by Satyajit Ray and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with India's preeminent film director and creator of the Apu trilogy

3 Rays

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9391149774
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book 3 Rays written by Satyajit Ray and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '3 Rays is like exploring the Mother Earth, and finding the rare treasures'-Gulzar, poet, lyricist and film-maker 'Satyajit Ray's work is like a beautiful scene from nature, and that's the reason we get lost in his beautiful art' -Shoojit Sircar, film-maker 'Ray's magic, the simple poetry of his images and their emotional impact, will always stay with me'-Martin Scorsese, film director, producer, screenwriter and actor 'Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors'-The Guardian 'Satyajit Ray's world of restless watchfulness and nuance'-The New York Times 'The quiet but deep observation ... have impressed me greatly'-Akira Kurosawa, film-maker The most anticipated book on the centenary birth anniversary of Satyajit Ray An amazingly brilliant collection of Satyajit Ray's previously unpublished autobiographical writings, illustrations, fictions and non-fictions A collector's item, 3 Rays is a source of delight for every reader Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), through his life, philosophy and works offered a unique aesthetic sensibility, which took Indian cinema, art and literature to a new height. An ace designer, music composer, illustrator and a gifted writer, Ray gave us the awe-inspiring sleuth Feluda, and the maverick scientist, Professor Shonku-two iconic characters loved and revered by millions of readers. On the occasion of his centenary birth anniversary, 3 Rays: Stories from Satyajit Ray, the first book in The Penguin Ray Library series, opens a window to the brilliance of this Renaissance man. With more than forty stories and poems along with many unpublished works, autobiographical writings and illustrations by Ray, this volume offers a unique glimpse into Ray's creative genius.

My Adventures with Satyajit Ray

Author : Suresh Jindal
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9352771036
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book My Adventures with Satyajit Ray written by Suresh Jindal and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Travails with the Alien

Author : Satyajit Ray
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9352779169
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Travails with the Alien written by Satyajit Ray and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyajit Ray was a master of science fiction writing. Through his Professor Shonku stories and other fiction and non-fiction pieces, he explored the genre from various angles. In the 1960s, Ray wrote a screenplay for what would have been the first-of-its-kind sci-fi film to be made in India. It was called The Alien and was based on his own short story "Bonkubabur Bandhu". On being prompted by Arthur C. Clarke, who found the screenplay promising, Ray sent the script to Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, who agreed to back it, and Peter Sellers was approached to play a prominent role. Then started the "Ordeals of the Alien" as Ray calls it, as even after a series of trips to the US, UK and France, the film was never made, and more shockingly, some fifteen years later, Ray watched Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and later E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and realized these bore uncanny resemblances to his script The Alien, including the way the ET was designed! A slice of hitherto undocumented cinema history, Travails with the Alien includes Ray's detailed essay on the project with the full script of The Alien, as well as the original short story on which the screenplay was based. These, presented alongside correspondence between Ray and Peter Sellers, Arthur C. Clarke, Marlon Brando, Hollywood producers who showed interest, and a fascinating essay by the young student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism who broke the Spielberg story, make this book a rare and compelling read on science fiction, cinema and the art of adaptation.

Beyond the World of Apu

Author : John W. Hood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the World of Apu written by John W. Hood and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new work, John W. Hood makes a thoroughly informed critique of all twenty-nine feature films of Satyajit Ray. Structured along themes which the author has identified in Ray's movies, this reassessment analyses each film on the basis of its individual merits and lapses. Having taken us through the two ends of the spectrum of excellence and mediocrity that comprise Ray's work, Hood concludes his incisive study by affirming that what makes Ray ascend into the realms of the great is his profound sense of humanity. A highly accessible work on arguably the finest filmmaker India has ever produced, this book will engage not only serious readers of cinematic texts but also be a valuable leaning resource for students of film studies, all over the world.

Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari

Author : Biswadeep Chakraborty
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781645875697
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari written by Biswadeep Chakraborty and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucknow is a city with magnificent history, architecture, culture and literature where once great musicians, poets and artists were patronized by the rich city elites and Nawabs, who made it the mecca of Hindustani art and culture. This book speaks of the rich tradition, history and culture during the final days of Lucknow's last Nawab, Wajid Ali Shah, through Satyajit Ray's major motion picture Shatranj Ke Khiladi or The Chess Players. In this book, Ray's narrative and socio-cultural representation of Lucknow are pitched against the original work of Munshi Premchand's short story by the same name, from which it was inspired. This work attempts to study Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khiladi in light of the actual historical events of nineteenth-century Lucknow, just before its annexation by the Raj. This work will analyze that period as depicted by Ray on celluloid, and the theme broadly highlights or rather studies the 'Imperial Manliness and Colonial Effeminacy', 'Politics of Annexation', 'Decadent Royalty' and 'Evolution of Performing Arts' during the reign of Wajid Ali Shah.