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Film Studies: A Beginner’s Guide
With film studies taking the centre stage and becoming a significant paper within the discipline ‘Journalism and Mass communication’, there is a rising demand and need for a comprehensive book that will deal with basic concepts of film theories and production. Keeping this need in mind, the book is an edited volume which will introduce the basic concepts of film production and theories to the beginners. The highlight of this book is a detailed overview of key foreign film movements and important landmarks in the journey of Indian films with special reference to notable directors and their contributions. The book attempts to throw light on the basic technical aspects of film making as wel...
Art Cinema and India’s Forgotten Futures
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...
Chasing the Truth
Mrinal Sen is one of India s foremost filmmakers, a pioneer of the alterative cinema movement in India. A veteran director whose career spans five decades, he produced his first film in the 1950s and has since made twenty-six features, two documentaries, and a number of televisions films. He is a writer-director whose works are permeated by his engagement with social issues and by his acute political awareness. His widely varied films encompass direct political statement, social analysis and psychological drama. Mrinal Sen s works have been praised by critics throughout the world and honoured with awards at numerous international film festivals in India and abroad. This book is an introduction to the films of Mrinal Sen, helping provide the historical and cultural context in which his work needs to be studied. In this introductory overview, complete with a filmography and a select bibliography, readers are familiarized with his oeuvre and the social and political commitment that informs the body of his work. His films are examined thematically and the connection between his life, the times, the socio-political context and his work is articulated in some detail.
Studying Indian Cinema
This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in their wider social, political and historical context whilst a concerted engagement with various ideological strands that underpin each film is also evident. In addition to exploring the films in their wider contexts, the author analyses selected sequences through the conceptual framework common to both film and media studies. This includes a consideration of narrative, genre, representation, audience and mise-en-scene. The case studies run chronologically from Awaara (The Vagabond, 1951) to The Elements Trilogy: Water (2005) and include films by such key figures as Satyajit Ray (The Lonely Wife), Ritwick Ghatak (Cloud Capped Star), Yash Chopra (The Wall) and Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!).
Mrinal Sen-60 Years In Search Of Cinema
Mrinal Sen is one of India's finest film makers and one of its most renowned in international circles. After an inauspicious feature debut, Sen found his feet with critically acclaimed films like "Baishey Shravana" in 1960, and "Akash Kusum" in 1965. His "Bhuvan Shome" in 1969 inspired a whole new generation of film makers.
Directory of World Cinema: India
Indian cinema teems with a multitude of different voices. The Directory of World Cinema: India provides a broad overview of this rich variety, highlighting distinctions among India’s major cinematic genres and movements while illuminating the field as a whole. This volume’s contributors – many of them leading experts in the fields – approach film in India from a variety of angles, furnishing in-depth essays on significant directors and major regions; detailed historical accounts; considerations of the many faces of India represented in Indian cinema; and explorations of films made in and about India by European directors including Jean Renoir, Peter Brook, and Powell and Pressburger. Taken together, these multifaceted contributions show how India’s varied local film industries throw into question the very concept of a national cinema. The resulting volume will provide a comprehensive introduction for newcomers to Indian cinema while offering a fresh perspective sure to interest seasonal students and scholars.
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Volumes for 1984- deal with Indian films entered in the 10th- International Film Festival of India.
