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Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films book cover

1st Edition

Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films

By Devapriya Sanyal Copyright 2022
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge
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This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmmaking in India. The book explores the portrayal of women in the context of the creation of national culture after India became independent. Gender issues were very important to India under Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s – with the enactment... Read more

Introduction: Satyajit Ray: Nation, Modernity and Gender

Chapter I: Searching for Antecedents: Feminine Portrayals in Literature and Cinema

Chapter II: The Receding Mother Figure: Pather Panchali (Sarbojaya), Devi (Doyamoyee), Kanchenjhunga (Anima and Labanya), Aranyer Din Ratri (Joya)

Chapter III: Transgressors – Charulata (Charulata), Ghare Baire (Bimala), Pikoo (Seema)

Chapter IV: Moral Beacons: Nayak (Aditi), Aranyer Din Ratri (Aparna), Seemabaddha (Tutul)

Chapter V: The New Woman: Mahanagar (Arati), Samapti (Mrinmoyee), Kanchenjunga (Monisha), Kapurush (Karuna)

Chapter VI: The Amoral Woman – Pratidwandi (Sutapa), Jana Aranya (Kauna and the prostitutes)

Chapter VII: Women on the Periphery: Apur Sansar (Aparna), Abhijan (Gulabi and Neeli), Ashani Sanket (Ananga), Shatranj ke Khiladi (the wives) and the Last Trilogy

Conclusion: Satyajit Ray and Art Cinema: The Issue of Agency.

Biography

Devapriya Sanyal is Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and the Indian Council of Social Science Research.

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