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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Surya Parekh - Ritwik Ghatak, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Ritwik Ghatak

Occasional Essays for a 100th Birthday

Av Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Surya Parekh

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A bold, transnational interpretation of Ritwik Ghatak’s cinema that invites readers to encounter his films as meditations on history, migration, and collective survival.The cinema of Ritwik Ghatak (1925–76) continues to resonate across borders and generations. His films—largely shaped by the 1947 Partition of Bengal and the experience of displacement—probe the fractured human condition through bold formal experimentation, unforgettable soundscapes, and a profound sense of myth and memory. Though his body of work was modest in size, Ghatak’s influence has steadily expanded, securing his place as a major figure in world cinema. This distinctive volume, which marks the centenary of this visionary filmmaker, gathers essays by important scholars and thinkers from around the world.Moving beyond conventional film criticism and area studies, the collection stages new, transnational encounters with Ghatak’s films—approaching them as world texts, as sonic and visual experiments, and as meditations on migration, collectivity, and social existence.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-09-05
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 313 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: India List
  • Antal sidor: 200
  • Förlag: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781803096575
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is university professor in the humanities at Columbia University and the author of many books. Spivak was awarded the 2012 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy and the 2025 Holberg Prize. In 2013, she received the Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award. Surya Parekh is assistant professor in the Department of English at Binghamton University. He is the author of Black Enlightenment. Moinak Biswas is an Indian film scholar and professor of film studies at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. As coordinator of the Media Lab, he researches Indian cinema, edits the Journal of the Moving Image, and is author of Apu and After.

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“Of all India’s many comparatively unsung directors, Ritwik Ghatak (1926–76) was possibly the most obviously talented. . . . Here was a passionate and intensely national filmmaker who seemed to have found his way without much access to the work of others but who was most certainly of international calibre. Arrogant, overbearing and hopelessly unreliable, he was also much loved and admired as a restless iconoclast whose dreams were never likely to be wholly fulfilled but still worth dreaming in the fractured society which he seemed to epitomise.”

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