Ritwik Ghatak and the Cinema of Praxis

Is the only book that establishes Ritwik Ghatak as an auteur of cinema
Is among the very few books written on the Partition of Bengal and its cinematic representation
Is the only work that historicises Ghatak within the dynamics and context of the Indian People's Theatre Association and their intervention in Indian cinema

Establishes Ritwik Ghatak as an auteur of cinema Discusses the partition of Bengal and its cinematic representation Historicises Ghatak within the dynamics and context of the Indian People's Theatre Association and their intervention in Indian cinema

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Diamond Oberoi Vahali teaches literature and cinema at the School of Letters, and the School of Undergraduate Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi, where she is an Associate Professor. She completed her Ph.D. at Jawaharlal Nehru University's School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. She co-edited and co-authored Once Upon a Time: A collection of Short Stories; and Life and Times of Shanta Toofani: Story of a Survivor. She has published articles on various aspects of literature and cinema. Her interests include literature, cinema studies, psychoanalysis, the human condition, empathetic and experiential pedagogies, engaged spirituality, life writing and memory studies, folk, oral and indigenous cultures, and narratives of resistance and resilience

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Introduction.- The Man and his Times.- A Search for a Personal Vision of Cinema.- Indian People's Theatre Association and the Cinema of Social Transformation.- The Episodic Structure in Ghatak's Cinema.- The Magnum Opus of the Bengal Partition: Motifs and Antinomies.- Recasting the Contemporary in the Crucible of the myth: Interventions and Interpretations.- Cinematography, Lighting, Sound and Music: A Contrapuntal Melody.- Film and Praxis: A Political Odyssey.- Marxism, Culture and Praxis.- The Angst of an Artist.- Survival and Resilience.

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