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Satyajit Ray is usually credited with ushering modernity into the
tradition-bound Indian Cinema. Suranjan Ganguly's book examines six
of Ray's major films focusing on issues such as human subjectivity,
the importance of education, the emancipation of women, the rise of
the new middle class, and the crisis of identity in
post-Independence India. He provides close readings of the
following films: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), Apur
Sansar (1959), Charulata (1964), Aranyer Din Ratri (1970), and
Pratidwandi (1970). All six films relate to Ray's interest in how a
culture acquires a composite, hybrid shape through the fusion of
history and modernity. By placing Ray's films within the
socio-historical and cultural contexts of Indian modernity, Ganguly
offers a radically different approach, which will enable Western
readers to engage more fully with the filmmaker's work.
In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan
Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker
describes his conceptual frameworks, his theoriesof vision and
sound, the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in
relation to his work, his concept of the muse, and the key
influences on his art-making. In doing so, Brakhage (1933-2003)
discusses some of his iconic films, such as Anticipation of the
Night, Dog Star Man, Scenes from Under Childhood, Mothlight, and
Text of Light. One of the most innovative filmmakers in the history
of experimental cinema, Brakhage made almost 350 films in his
fifty-two year- long career. These films include psychodramas,
autobiography, Freudian trance films, birth films, song cycles,
meditations on light, and hand-painted films, some of which range
from nine seconds to over four hours in duration. Born in Kansas
City, Missouri, he lived most of his life in the mountains of
Colorado, teaching for twenty-one years in the film studies program
at the University of Colorado, Boulder. As a filmmaker, Brakhage's
life-long obsession with what he called an "adventure in
perception" made him focus on the act of seeing itself, which he
tried to capture on film in multiple ways both with and without his
camera and by scratching and painting on film. Convinced that there
is a primary level of cognition that precedes language, he wrote of
the "untutored eye" with which children can access ineffable visual
realities. Adults, who have lostsuch primal sight, can "retrain"
their eyes by becoming conscious of what constitutes true vision
and the different ways in which they daily perceive the world.
Brakhage's films experiment with such perceptions, manipulating
visual and auditory experience in ways that continue to influence
film today.
In this volume, editor Suranjan Ganguly collects eight of Stan
Brakhage's most important interviews in which the filmmaker
describes his conceptual frameworks; his theories of vision and
sound; the importance of poetry, music, and the visual arts in
relation to his work; his concept of the muse; and the key
influences on his art-making. In doing so, Brakhage (1933-2003)
discusses some of his iconic films, such as Anticipation of the
Night, Dog Star Man, Scenes from Under Childhood, Mothlight, and
The Text of Light. One of the most innovative filmmakers in the
history of experimental cinema, Brakhage made almost 350 films in
his fifty-two-year-long career. These films include psychodramas,
autobiography, Freudian trance films, birth films, song cycles,
meditations on light, and hand-painted films, which range from nine
seconds to over four hours in duration. Born in Kansas City,
Missouri, he lived most of his life in the mountains of Colorado,
teaching for twenty-one years in the film studies program at the
University of Colorado, Boulder. As a filmmaker, Brakhage's
life-long obsession with what he called an "adventure in
perception" made him focus on the act of seeing itself, which he
tried to capture on film in multiple ways both with and without his
camera and by scratching and painting on film. Convinced that there
is a primary level of cognition that precedes language, he wrote of
the "untutored eye" with which children can access ineffable visual
realities. Adults, who have lost such primal sight, can "retrain"
their eyes by becoming conscious of what constitutes true vision
and the different ways in which they daily perceive the world.
Brakhage's films experiment with such perceptions, manipulating
visual and auditory experience in ways that continue to influence
film today.
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