Woman at the Window: The Material Universe of Rabindranath Tagore Through the Eyes of Satyajit Ray - Couverture souple

Chatterji, Shoma

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9351365026 ISBN 13 : 9789351365020

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2017

Synopsis

Representations of women in Indian cinema are often warped and twisted. They are subjected to a series of gazes - voyeuristic, investigative and titillating. The controlling look is always with the male. One film-maker who consistently steered clear of this right through his career was Satyajit Ray. None of Ray's women on celluloid can be reduced to a cliche. They defy every imaginable stereotyping. This is particularly true of the women in his adaptations of Tagore's stories. Woman at the Window attempts a completely new way of looking at Ray's films in general, and his films adapted from Tagore in particular, through contextualizing the women by objects they are surrounded by or are fond of, or are habituated to using or learning to use over time. What emerges is a one-of-its-kind book, indeed the first comprehensive study of this kind on the cinema of Ray which offers a greater understanding of the differences, or the absence thereof, between Tagore's original stories and Ray's celluloid readings of these stories, as also fascinating material for gender studies students, researchers, academics and scholars writing on cinema.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Shoma A. Chatterji, film critic, journalist and author, won the National Award (1991) for Best Film Critic and the Best Film Critic Award from the Bengal Film Journalists' Association (1998). Her book Parama and Other Outsiders: The Cinema of Aparna Sen won the National Award for the Best Book on Cinema in 2003.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9351365026
• ISBN 13: 9789351365020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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