Download or read book Chasing the Truth written by John W. Hood and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrinal Sen is one of India s foremost filmmakers, a pioneer of the alterative cinema movement in India. A veteran director whose career spans five decades, he produced his first film in the 1950s and has since made twenty-six features, two documentaries, and a number of televisions films. He is a writer-director whose works are permeated by his engagement with social issues and by his acute political awareness. His widely varied films encompass direct political statement, social analysis and psychological drama. Mrinal Sen s works have been praised by critics throughout the world and honoured with awards at numerous international film festivals in India and abroad. This book is an introduction to the films of Mrinal Sen, helping provide the historical and cultural context in which his work needs to be studied. In this introductory overview, complete with a filmography and a select bibliography, readers are familiarized with his oeuvre and the social and political commitment that informs the body of his work. His films are examined thematically and the connection between his life, the times, the socio-political context and his work is articulated in some detail.
Download or read book Mrinal Sen 60 Years In Search Of Cinema written by Dipankar Mukhopadhyay and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrinal Sen is one of India's finest film makers and one of its most renowned in international circles. After an inauspicious feature debut, Sen found his feet with critically acclaimed films like "Baishey Shravana" in 1960, and "Akash Kusum" in 1965. His "Bhuvan Shome" in 1969 inspired a whole new generation of film makers.
Download or read book Always Being Born written by Mrinal Sen and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker. "I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion," claims Mrinal Sen, who became part of the great triumvirate of Bengali cinema--along with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak--in the 1950s and '60s when he founded the rebellious Indian New Wave. Throughout his career, he kept that fire of protest burning, his acute political awareness and left-wing orientation spurring his creativity. Over decades, the themes that pervaded his cinema mirrored the spectrum of human suffering and experience, and in turn crystallized the anger of a restive mind against social injustice, economic deprivation, and communal divide. In this memoir, a celebrated ambassador of Indian cinema on the global stage, for whom cinema became a lexicon that gave voice to the times, reflects on encounters with the legends of the world of images as well as his inspirations and obsessions--not least among them, the city of Calcutta. Always Being Born is a fascinating memoir of a great artist and a buoyant social commentator who continued to confront, fight, and survive on the very challenges that propelled him to look beyond and dream.
Download or read book Insurgent Imaginations written by Auritro Majumder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how internationalist writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western regions in a new center.
Download or read book Montage written by Mrinal Sen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran filmmaker Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. As he has continued to experiment with cinema over the decades, evolving his own quest in response to the changing times, he has also maintained an acute social critique which shows in his films, writings and interviews. The enfant terrible of Indian cinema in the 1960s and 70s, he is now known for his subtle nuanced films which capture a moment of crisis, a moment of truth, in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. This collection encapsulates close to half a century of filmmaking. It includes original writings, memoirs, letters, musings on politics, literature, theatre and cinema; critiques of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Chaplin and a host of other international filmmakers especially those from Latin-America; and intensive interviews with scholars, critics and filmmakers such as Samik Bandyopadhyay, Swapan Mullick and Reinhard Hauff. In juxtaposition with intimate photographs of the artist at work and stills from his movies, these form a rare montage of the filmmaker and the man, mapping an unusual creative landscape which offers valuable insights into his films. There is also a complete filmography encompassing his features, telefilms and documentaries
Download or read book Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures written by Scott MacKenzie and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures is the first book to collect manifestoes from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestoes, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world. This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI's Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.
Download or read book The Film Sense written by Sergei Eisenstein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1947 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned Soviet director discusses his theory of film as an artistic medium which must appeal to all senses and applies it to an analysis of sequences from his major movies.
Download or read book Studying Indian Cinema written by Omar Ahmed and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films analysed in their wider social, political and historical context whilst a concerted engagement with various ideological strands that underpin each film is also evident. In addition to exploring the films in their wider contexts, the author analyses selected sequences through the conceptual framework common to both film and media studies. This includes a consideration of narrative, genre, representation, audience and mise-en-scene. The case studies run chronologically from Awaara (The Vagabond, 1951) to The Elements Trilogy: Water (2005) and include films by such key figures as Satyajit Ray (The Lonely Wife), Ritwick Ghatak (Cloud Capped Star), Yash Chopra (The Wall) and Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!).
Download or read book The Enemy Within written by Sumita S. Chakravarty and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Indian Cinema written by Aruna Vasudev and published by New Delhi : Macmillan India. This book was released on 1986 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cinema of Mrinal Sen written by and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Views on Cinema written by Mrinal Sen and published by Calcutta : Ishan. This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises articles, letters, book and film reviews, etc., by an Indian moviemaker; includes interviews with him and synopses of his films.
Download or read book The Cinemas of India written by Yves Thoraval and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to wade through the world of Indian cinema, from 1896 to 2000, this book, an enlarged edition of the original FR title, Les Cinemas de L lnde , presents its multiple regional facets illustrated by filmmakers that the world is no
Download or read book History of Indian Cinema written by Renu Saran and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian film industry is the largest in the world. It releases 1000 plus movies annually. Most films are made in South Indian languages (viz., Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam). Nevertheless, Hindi films take the largest box office share. India has 12,000 plus cinema halls and this industry churns out 1000 plus films a year. This book gives a brief history of the world's most exciting industrial enterprise. It gives the details, facts and vital sets of data of Indian cinema with amazing finesse. Its simple style and low cost enable all reader genres to read it. Renu Saran has penned this book for the lovers of Indian cinema. She has given many good books to our valued readers. She has worked very hard to collect data and analyze information sets. That is why this book has become one of the best in its genre.
Download or read book Ten Days in Calcutta written by Reinhard Hauff and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encounter between two major contemporary directors, Reinhard Hauff from Germany and Mrinal Sen, in Calcutta, opens up an unusual view of the city of Calcutta, as the setting for Sen s critical, realist study of living in India, touching on the problems of realism in cinema, even as the directors compare notes on how they have treated reality and used people.
Download or read book My Chaplin written by Mrinal Sen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life and works of Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977, comedian and film artist from United States.
Download or read book Cinema and I written by Ritwik Ghatak and published by Dhyanbindu & Rmt. This book was released on 2015-11-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritwik Ghatak(1925-76) is the most uncompromising Bengali movie maestro from 20th century India. Cinema & I is the collection of his writings and interviews. In this collection of 20 essays and 17 interviews, dazzling brilliance of a true artist's mind, illuminates the cultural layers of human civilization of east and west, from pre-history up to the modernity. This is a book not meant for those who are interested only in cinema. For anybody, in any way related to any branch of art or humanities, this book is going to be a precious possession.
