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Rituparno Ghosh: cinema, gender and art

Contributor(s): Series: South Asian History and CulturePublication details: Routledge 2017 New DelhiDescription: xix, 283 pISBN:
  • 9781138666788
  • 9781317356080
  • 1138953903
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092 R4
Summary: An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. From the very outset, Ghosh displayed a strong feminist sensibility which later evolved into radical queer politics. This volume analyses his films, his craft, his stardom and his contribution to sexual identity politics. In this first scholarly study undertaken on Rituparno Ghosh, the essays discuss the cultural import of his work within the dynamics of a rapidly evolving film industry in Bengal and more largely the cinematic landscape of India. The anthology also contains a conversation section (interviews with the filmmaker and with industry cast and crew) drawing a critical and personal portrait of this remarkable filmmaker. https://www.routledge.com/Rituparno-Ghosh-Cinema-gender-and-art/Datta-Bakshi-Dasgupta/p/book/9781138953901
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Part I
1. Invoking Love, Death and an Elsewhere: Searching the auteur in Rituparno Ghosh’s
2. Rituparno Ghosh and the Pursuit of Freedom
3. Locating Rituparno Ghosh in Tollywood
4. ‘Just Like a Film Star!’ The Style of Being Rituparno Ghosh
5. The Endangered City in Rituparno Ghosh’s Early Cinema of Confinement
6. Borrowing, Becoming, and the Question of the Self in
7. En-gendering the detective: Of love, longing and feminine follies
8. Closeted Desires and Open Secrets: Raincoat and
9. Beyond the Binary: (Trans)gender Narratives and Class Distinction in Rituparno Ghosh’s later films
10. Kissed on One Cheek and Slapped on the Other: Rituparno Ghosh’s Chitrangada as an Allegory of Oppositional Reading
11. A Room of Hir Own: The Queer Aesthetics of Rituparno Ghosh

PART II
12. Rituparno Ghosh in conversation with
13. Rituparno Ghosh in conversation with
14. Cast and Crew Speak with

An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. From the very outset, Ghosh displayed a strong feminist sensibility which later evolved into radical queer politics.

This volume analyses his films, his craft, his stardom and his contribution to sexual identity politics. In this first scholarly study undertaken on Rituparno Ghosh, the essays discuss the cultural import of his work within the dynamics of a rapidly evolving film industry in Bengal and more largely the cinematic landscape of India. The anthology also contains a conversation section (interviews with the filmmaker and with industry cast and crew) drawing a critical and personal portrait of this remarkable filmmaker.

https://www.routledge.com/Rituparno-Ghosh-Cinema-gender-and-art/Datta-Bakshi-Dasgupta/p/book/9781138953901

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