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restored under the supervision of Mike Wheeler, Senior Conservator (Paper Preservation) at the Victoria-Albert Museum, London, and is housed in his family home in Kolkata. She does this with extraordinary intelligence and finesse, and the result is an illuminating statement on how a cinema that seems nostalgic for a disappearing cultural past can in fact be read, for the first time perhaps, for its intimations of an as-yet unrealized futurity."-Rey Chow, author of Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films

Keya Ganguly's intellectual tour de force in this analysis of the great Indian film maker Satyajit Ray will provide a benchmark for future studies of the subject."-Partha Mitter, author of The Triumph of Modernism: Indian Artists and the Avant-Garde 1922-1947 "What distinguishes Ganguly's book from the more fashionable approaches to non-Western cinema is her willingness to assert the importance of European theory-specifically, writings on film by Eisenstein, Benjamin, Kracauer, Balázs, among others-as a way to elaborate Satyajit Ray's contributions in the larger postwar context of an international New Wave cinema movement. "This is a deeply researched, theoretically sophisticated and organic study. “Bengali Film Debates: The Literary Liaison . The most comprehensive treatment of Ray's work, The Cinema of Satyajit Ray makes accessible the oeuvre of one of the most prolific and creative filmmakers of the twentieth century.

Providing analyses of selected films, including those that comprise The Apu Trilogy, Chess Players, and Jalsaghhar, among others, Cooper outlines Western influences on Ray's work, such as the plight of women functioning within a patriarchal society, Ray's political vision of the 'doubly colonised', and his attack and critique of the Bengali/Indian middle class of today. Darius Cooper's study of Ray is the first to examine his rich and varied work from a social and historical perspective, and to situate it within Indian aesthetics.

Satyajit Ray is India's greatest filmmaker and his importance in the international world of cinema has long been recognised. D, S, M, Satyajit Ray, after the novel by Sunil Ganguly P, Priya Films Ph, Soumendu Roy E, Dulal Dutta AD, Bansi Chandragupta C, Dhritiman Chatterjee ( Siddhartha Choudhury ), Debraj Roy ( Tunu ), Krishna Bose .