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Title
Ritwik Ghatak and the cinema of praxis : culture, aesthetics and vision / Diamond Oberoi Vahali.
ISBN
9789811511974 (electronic book)
9811511977 (electronic book)
9811511969
9789811511967
Publication Details
Singapore : Springer, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-15-1
Call Number
PN1998.3.G43
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.4302/33092
Summary
In a significant departure from other works on Ritwik Ghatak, this book establishes him as an auteur and a maestro on par with some of the great film directors, like Sergei Eisenstein, Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Kenji Mizoguchi and Luis Bunuel. Based on in-depth research that follows Ghataks journey within the context of the Indian Peoples Theatre Association, it fills an important gap in the scholarship around Ghatak by offering crucial insights into Ghataks unique vision of cinema embedded as it is in the cultural psychic configurations of the people. It analyses Ghataks practice by minutely tracing formal similarities across the language of his cinematic oeuvre in the domain of cinematography, lighting, music, and sound. The book develops the way in which cinematic technique enters the domain of conceptual constructs and abstractions. It moves on to chronicle Ghataks political odyssey as reflected in his cinema. Moreover, it charts the manner in which Ghatak, through his cinematic idiom, offers a polemic of cinema that further adds to his notion of praxis - a thoughtful Marxist paradigm organically associated with the culture and context of India. By locating Ghatak within the discourse of nationalism, the book brings to the surface Ghataks critical insights related to the independence of the nation and the trauma of the partition of Bengal. Ghataks cinema served the crucial function of chronicling the mass tragedy of partition and its impact on the human psyche. This book appeals to scholars of film studies and filmmaking as well as to researchers and general readers interested in debates pertaining to culture, politics, art, psychoanalysis, partition and refugee studies, cinema, theatre, and ideology.
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Print version: 9789811511967
Introduction
The Man and his Times
A Search for a Personal Vision of Cinema
Indian Peoples Theatre Association and the Cinema of Social Transformation
The Episodic Structure in Ghataks Cinema
The Magnum Opus of the Bengal Partition: Motifs and Antinomies
Recasting the Contemporary in the Crucible of the myth: Interventions and Interpretations
Cinematography, Lighting, Sound and Music: A Contrapuntal Melody
Film and Praxis: A Political Odyssey
Marxism, Culture and Praxis
The Angst of an Artist
Survival and Resilience.
