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.
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