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Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis - Culture, Aesthetics and Vision (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis - Culture, Aesthetics and Vision (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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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 Ghatak's journey within the
context of the Indian People's Theatre Association, it fills an
important gap in the scholarship around Ghatak by offering crucial
insights into Ghatak's unique vision of cinema embedded as it is in
the cultural psychic configurations of the people. It analyses
Ghatak's 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 Ghatak's
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 Ghatak's critical
insights related to the independence of the nation and the trauma
of the partition of Bengal. Ghatak's 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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